Tag: prison
The Baltimore Bureau Podcast Show: July 6, 2018
Dharna and Khalilah talk about the local movement for affordable housing, a workers strike at a local Target, the price of water, the prevalence of…
With Reality Winner Sentenced, Does The Intercept Owe Answers?
Reality Winner has been sentenced to five years for leaking an NSA document to The Intercept alleging a Russian cyber-operation targeting the U.S. voting system….
America’s Criminal “Injustice” System
Nina Turner, Cornel West, Danny Glover, Cynthia Nixon and Gus Newport on the roots of and solutions to America’s addiction to mass incarceration at the…
Author Chris Wilson Unveils his Master Plan with New Book
Chris Wilson, convicted as an adult at 17 and sentenced to life in prison without parole, tells his harrowing story in his new book, The…
Eddie Conway: 5-Year Anniversary of His Release From Prison - RAI (11/12)
We continue our Reality Asserts Itself series with TRNN Executive Producer Eddie Conway, who spent 44 years as a political prisoner and is now in…
‘We want Rikers closed and no new jails in its place!’
COVID-19 turned what were already inhumane conditions at Rikers Island, New York’s most notorious jail, into a full-blown humanitarian crisis. Prisoners, activists, and legal advocates…
Cops railroaded him into a false confession. He’s still fighting to clear his name.
In 2014, at the age of 15, Prakash Churaman was arrested at his home at 6AM without a warrant. After driving him around for a…
How Maryland prisoners took on the governor
Walter Lomax was wrongfully imprisoned in the state of Maryland for 39 years until he eventually had his conviction vacated by a judge in 2006….
Chris Hedges on trauma & teaching writing in prison
Since 2013, Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of The Chris Hedges Report, has taught college courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history at…
Rattling the Bars: Alabama prisoners on strike
TRNN contributor Michael Sainato returns to ‘Rattling the Bars’ to discuss the system-wide strike in Alabama’s state prisons. The strike is focused on both improving…
Rattling the Bars: Cholera in Haiti’s prisons, free them now!
Cases of cholera have been confirmed at Haiti’s National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince. Cholera, which spreads through unsanitary water, has become endemic in Haiti since the…
Rattling the Bars: San Quentin Prison is a COVID deathtrap
In 2020, at least 23 people died at San Quentin State Prison in California due to COVID-19. Two years later, COVID-19 remains a clear and…
Louisiana is imprisoning kids on death row | Rattling the Bars
A new report shows Louisiana is in the process of transferring at least 20 incarcerated minors to be housed at death row units in various…
50 years of mass incarceration in America | Rattling the Bars
Nicole Porter from The Sentencing Project joins Rattling the Bars to explain her organization’s new campaign to fight mass incarceration, ’50 years and a wake…
