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This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter with jails and to chronicle the progress ground-up efforts have made in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, adoption of technology and other crucial aspects of the move toward decarceration at local levels.

Recent Episodes

  • ICE Chief of Staff Michael Lumpkin Speaks on the Record About Conditions Inside Detention Centers, the Treatment of LGBTQ+ Detainees, and More

    1 week ago
  • Why Transgender Immigrants Don’t Need Allies, They Need Accomplices

    1 week ago
  • Angel Island, and Why the U.S. Has Historically Used Islands to Isolate, Process, and Deter Immigrants

    1 week ago
  • Mothers Seeking Asylum Face Much More Than Documentation Challenges

    1 week ago
  • This Wyoming Lawyer Is Creating a Legal Safety Net for Asylum Seekers

    1 week ago
  • Accusations and Denials About the Treatment of Trans Migrants in ICE Custody, Part 2

    1 week ago
  • Accusations and Denials About the Treatment of Trans Migrants in ICE Custody, Part 1

    1 week ago
  • Why These Afghan Women Had to Re-Learn to Be Mothers as Refugees in the US

    1 week ago
  • Migrants Risk Their Lives During Hunger Strikes Inside ICE Detention, Part 2

    1 week ago
  • Migrants Risk Their Lives During Hunger Strikes Inside ICE Detention, Part 1

    1 week ago