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The Appeal is a news podcast hosted by The Appeal. It has 65 episodes, with the latest published February 2020.
The Appeal is a podcast, hosted by Adam Johnson, on criminal justice reform, abolition and everything in between. Each week we will feature fascinating interviews with those covering, working in, and most affected by the American criminal system; from lawyers to activists to reporters to the formerly incarcerated. The Appeal will unpack the latest efforts to shine a light on––and radically rethink––the largest prison state in the world.
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Episode 65: The Cruel Rise of 'Drug Induced Homicide' Prosecutions
Episode 64: Documenting the Death Penalty
Episode 62: Police Abuse In American Schools
Episode 62: Locking Up Women For Killing Their Rapists
Appeal Podcast: Reexamining the Science of Shaken Baby Syndrome
Episode 60: Substandard Healthcare in American Prisons
Episode 59: The Regressive Pseudoscience of Our "War on Opioid Addiction"
Episode 58: The Cruel Roadblocks to Getting Innocent People Out of Prison
Episode 57: Imagining a Post-Incarceration World
Episode 56: States Turn To Nitrogen Gas For Executions, Despite Doctors' Concerns
Episode 55: When Criminal Justice Reform Preserves The Status Quo
Episode 54: When Police Officers Double as Prosecutors
Episode 53: A Lack of Basic Rights for Incarcerated Workers
Episode 52: The Problem With Jailhouse Informants
Episode 51: U.S. Prisoners on Death Row Endure Permanent Solitary Before Execution
Episode 50: The War on Drugs Continues In Family Court
Episode 49: Chesa Boudin and the Meaning of 'Reform'
Episode 48: The Rise of Registries
End of Season Note to Listeners
Episode 47: The Media's Misguided Fentanyl Hype
Episode 46: Pleading Guilty Just to Go Home
Episode 45: Qualified Immunity, A Roadblock to Reform
Episode 44: What's Changed Since The 2018 Prison Strike?
Episode 43: American Cities' Growing Reliance on Surveillance
Episode 42: Criminal Justice Reform Hits Roadblock in Arizona
Episode 41: Reframing The Bronx 120 Raid
Episode 40: Generational Harm, A Hidden Cost of Mass Incarceration
Episode 39: NYPD-SVU's Low Clearance Rate for Sexual Assault
Episode 38: Privacy and Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
Episode 37: The Baltimore Police Department's Troubled Homicide Unit
Episode 36: The Long, Troubled History of Gravity Knife Prosecution
Episode 35: The Risks of Risk Assessment
Episode 34: Pushing for Police Accountability in Sacramento
Episode 33: The Backlash Against Expanding Voting Rights
Episode 32: Mayor of Jackson Faces Uphill Battle for Police Accountability
Episode 31: Prisoners With Disabilities Fight for Equal Rights
Episode 30: How Police Unions Are Fighting California's New Transparency Law
Episode 29: A Pattern of Jail Deaths in Upstate New York—and Across the Country
Episode 28: Debunking the 'Fake News' About Federal Prisoners' Steak Dinners
Episode 27: Promise and Letdown in Post-Alton Sterling Baton Rouge
Episode 26: The Power of Sheriffs
Episode 25: How Some Cities Are Fighting Back Against ICE
Episode 24: BLM Four Years On - Racism in the Criminal Justice System
Episode 23: The Pseudoscience behind Forensic Science
Episode 22: The Dangers of Faux-Reform
Episode 20: Neglect and Abuse in Our Prison Healthcare System
Episode 19: Prison Strikes and the Frontlines of Resistance Against Mass Incarceration
Episode 18: How Activists Brought Down the Most Powerful Man in Chicago
Episode 17: The Cruelty of Life Sentences For Proxy Crime
Episode 16 - Police Accountability: As Elusive as Ever
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