Oct 12, 20205 Million Americans With Felony Convictions Barred From Voting This NovemberMillions of Americans with felony convictions are banned from voting, including in the upcoming November election, according to a new study from The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice nonprofit. Titled “Locked Out,” the study estimates that 5.2 million people across the country have had their voting rights stripped as a…Voting5 min readVoting5 min read
Feb 24, 2020Expert Warns Of ‘Perilous’ Coronavirus Threat In Jails & Prisons [Podcast]You can also download the episode on your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2EpOrN6 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/35sszg8 Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/2EltJ0P Stitcher: https://bit.ly/38KTJkv TuneIn: https://bit.ly/2ErfgjW One of the foremost experts on correctional health services warned of a “very perilous and looming threat” inside American correctional facilities…Prison16 min readPrison16 min read
Dec 3, 2019Mentally Ill & Incarcerated: America’s 19th Century Response to TreatmentWelcome to News Beat, an award-winning podcast that mixes hard-hitting, social justice journalism with music to uniquely examine some of the most pressing issues facing society. Each episode features interviews from well-known voices — ranging from activists to scholars to journalists — set to music, interspersed with powerful, original…Prison Reform8 min readPrison Reform8 min read
Nov 16, 2019Member-onlyClimate Justice: The Youth-Led Revolution To Save The PlanetWelcome to News Beat, an award-winning podcast that mixes hard-hitting, social justice journalism with music to uniquely examine some of the most pressing issues facing society. …Climate Change9 min readClimate Change9 min read
Nov 12, 2019Bonus Episode: Chesa Boudin, Restorative Justice Advocate, Wins San Francisco DA ElectionChesa Boudin, the deputy public defender in San Francisco who ran a progressive campaign promising to dismantle the city’s mass incarceration apparatus, was elected district attorney. He was featured prominently in our episode “Restorative Justice: Healing Instead of Incarceration.” The hotly contested race pitted Boudin, whose parents were incarcerated when he was a year old, against three other competitors, including Suzy Loftus, who served four years as the president of the San Francisco Police…Criminal Justice Reform6 min readCriminal Justice Reform6 min read
Oct 23, 2019Member-onlyRestorative Justice: Healing Instead of IncarcerationNews Beat is an award-winning podcast that mixes hard-hitting, social justice journalism with music to uniquely examine some of the most pressing issues facing society. Each episode features interviews from well-known voices — ranging from activists to scholars to journalists — set to music, interspersed with powerful, original lyrics crafted…Criminal Justice Reform8 min readCriminal Justice Reform8 min read
Aug 28, 2019Criminal Justice Podcasts: Bail, Youth Prisons, War On Drugs & MoreCriminal justice reform has emerged as a pressing issue across the country. Almost all the top-performing presidential hopefuls for the Democratic Party nomination have released their plans to reform America’s massive justice system. …Criminal Justice Reform5 min readCriminal Justice Reform5 min read
Jul 2, 2019Member-onlyCriminal Justice Reform Is Spreading Across The Country. But Is It Enough to Dismantle Mass Incarceration?Welcome to News Beat, an award-winning social justice podcast. This is a special bonus episode on criminal justice reform, poverty, and felony disenfranchisement in Florida. You can listen directly on Apple Podcasts, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn or wherever you get your podcasts. …Criminal Justice Reform12 min readCriminal Justice Reform12 min read
Jun 10, 2019Australia’s Journalism Investigations Underscore Precarious State of Global Press Freedoms — And America Must Pay AttentionAnyone familiar with the Australian drama “Secret City” — a political thriller set in the nation’s capital city of Canberra — would likely recall its pressure-packed first season culminating in a sleuthing journalist’s imprisonment due to the passage of a draconian national security law. A fictional series, it seems life…Journalism6 min readJournalism6 min read
Jun 4, 2019California: Epicenter of Mass Incarceration ReformThis episode of News Beat podcast was created in partnership with The Marshall Project, a non-profit news organization based in New York City dedicated to award-winning journalism covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Visit its site to read more of TMP’s work and its series about prison reform in The Golden State, aptly titled “The California Experiment.” California has positioned itself at the epicenter of a growing movement to reform the criminal justice system, representing a seismic shift for a state that spent previous decades exponentially increasing its prison population.Criminal Justice Reform12 min readCriminal Justice Reform12 min read
