The 2 Best Criminal (In)justice Podcast Episodes
1) #26: The Serial Effect with Sarah Koenig
Criminal Injustice returns with a new season on Sept. 5, 2017. Until then, we're reposting some of our favorite past episodes. This episode originally appeared Oct. 4, 2016. ================= Our vas...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) #117 The Second Chance Club: Life in Parole World
Every year, more than 600,000 Americans leave our jails and prisons. Many are on parole. Others people are put on probation instead of going to prison. The job of supervising all of them falls to paro...Show More
3) Bonus: Dog Leash Lady Tries to Unleash Racist Violence
Viral video of an encounter in NYC's Central Park shows a white woman calling 911 to report another park user is threatening her life, apparently trying to provoke a violent police response against th...Show More
4) Bonus: The Death of George Floyd
Another horrific episode of police violence, captured on video in Minneapolis, graphically recalls the 2014 killing of Eric Garner by NYPD officers who were never criminally charged in his death. This...Show More
5) Bonus: The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery
The killing of an unarmed black man, Ahmaud Arbery, by two white men in Georgia went largely unnoticed until video of the February shooting went viral earlier this month. Now the father and son face m...Show More
6) Read This: Let the People Go
Recommended reading on how COVID-19 is impacting incarcerated populations and what must be done to avoid catastrophe: "Let the People Go" by Joseph Margulies in the Boston Review. Support Criminal In...Show More
7) Bonus: Bad to Worse
COVID-19 has exposed systemic injustice and institutional failures at every level of society, and nowhere more than in the criminal justice system. Incarcerated people are already being hit hard by th...Show More
8) Bonus: COVID-19 and Funding Public Defense
Louisiana's public defender system is funded by fines from traffic violations. But with far fewer cars on the road due to COVID-19, an already badly underfunded system is at the breaking point. Suppor...Show More
9) Bonus: No More Non-Unanimous Verdicts
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that jury decisions in state criminal cases must be unanimous, overturning a precedent that goes back to Jim Crow. Support Criminal Injustice at $5/month to unlock extra ...Show More
10) SCOTUS v COVID-19
Workplaces are adjusting to life under lockdown by holding meetings via videoconference — and the U.S. Supreme Court is no exception. Support Criminal Injustice at $5/month to unlock extra bonus episo...Show More