All Episodes
The Appeal — 65 episodes
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
Episode 15: On the Ground in Dallas' High Stakes DA Race
Episode 14: The Prison-to-School Pipeline
Episode 13: The Problem of 'Innocence'
Episode 12: Why Electronic Monitoring Is Not Prison Reform
Episode 11: Big Box Retailers and Prosecutors Team Up to Crackdown on Petty Crime
Episode 10: Race and Corruption in Child Protection Courts
Episode 9: The History––and Promise––of the Bail Abolition Movement
Episode 8: The Racist Zeal of 'Zero Tolerance' and Trump's Anti-Immigrant Escalation
Episode 7: What Abolitionists Mean When They Talk About Abolition
Episode 6: The Unique Cruelty of Sentencing Children to Life Without Parole
Episode 5: Rise of Silicon Valley-Assisted Pre-Crime
Episode 4: Rikers and the Co-opting of Prison Reform to Sell More Prisons
Episode 3: Turning Users Into Dealers and Accidental Overdoses into Murder
Episode 2: The Misplaced Sanctimony of Criminalizing Sex Work
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