The 3 Best The Appeal Podcast Episodes
1) Episode 16 - Police Accountability: As Elusive as Ever
“Police accountability” is a term that gets thrown around a lot in conversations about criminal justice reform. But how do we make sure police officers who break laws or department rules are held to a...Show More
2) Episode 24: BLM Four Years On - Racism in the Criminal Justice System
It's been over four years since the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO and the issue of racism in the criminal legal system remains as stark and urgent as ever. Our guest, professor at American ...Show More
Episode 24: BLM Four Years On - Racism in the Criminal Justice System
22:49 | Dec 6th, 2018
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3) Episode 62: Locking Up Women For Killing Their Rapists
In 2018, Brittany Smith was assaulted and raped by a man in her Alabama home. Later that night, when the same man attacked both her and her brother, Smith shot and killed him in what she calls self-de...Show More
4) Episode 65: The Cruel Rise of 'Drug Induced Homicide' Prosecutions
In 2014, then-23 year-old Morgan Godvin sold a small amount of heroin to her friend and fellow drug user Justin DeLong who subsequently overdosed and died. Morgan was charged by the federal government...Show More
5) Episode 64: Documenting the Death Penalty
Despite hundreds of people being put to death in the United States since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, surprisingly little data exists on who exactly is killed by the governm...Show More
6) Episode 62: Police Abuse In American Schools
In recent years, the number of police in American schools has skyrocketed as social services have been cut. As of 2016, 1.7 million students are in schools with police officers but no counselors, 3 mi...Show More
7) Appeal Podcast: Reexamining the Science of Shaken Baby Syndrome
Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) bas been the subject of countless news specials, TV drama plots, and shocking tabloid headlines––horrific tales of child abuse, quickly met with the firm justice of the stat...Show More
8) Episode 60: Substandard Healthcare in American Prisons
The only people in the United States the government is required by law to provide healthcare for are the incarcerated. But what constitutes a baseline standard of care is very much in doubt and many h...Show More
9) Episode 59: The Regressive Pseudoscience of Our "War on Opioid Addiction"
On our last episode of the year we're doing something a little different: Joining us to co-host this week is Appeal contributor Zach Siegel, who’s a journalism fellow at Northeastern University Law Sc...Show More
Episode 59: The Regressive Pseudoscience of Our "War on Opioid Addiction"
38:18 | Dec 12th, 2019
10) Episode 58: The Cruel Roadblocks to Getting Innocent People Out of Prison
Last month, 106 legal scholars signed a brief supporting St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner's efforts to get a new trial for Lamar Johnson, a man convicted of murder in 1995 for a crime many––including ...Show More