70 Million

70 Million

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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

  • Introducing Still Paying the Price: Reparations in Real Terms

    9 months ago
  • What’s the Public’s Role in Upholding a Broken Criminal Justice System?

    1 year ago
  • How Those Drowning in Carceral Debt Are Lining Others’ Pockets

    1 year ago
  • Why Policing Our Schools Backfires

    1 year ago
  • How Jailhouse Informants Rig the Justice System

    1 year ago
  • Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2

    1 year ago
  • Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1

    1 year ago
  • Grand Juries, the Black Box of Justice Reform?

    1 year ago
  • Highway Robbery: How a Small-town Traffic Trap Became a Legal Black Hole

    1 year ago
  • How Guilty Pleas Fastrack and Derail Justice

    1 year ago