Progressive Radio Network

Criminal justice

It’s rather difficult to compare data from different time periods, according to different methodologies, across different parts of the world, and still come to definitive…
David talks with Areeq Chowdhury, founder and chief executive of Web Roots Democracy, a United Kingdom-based organization that promotes the idea of online voting in…
In 2014, the US Department of Justice confirmed Louisiana remained number 1 [3], among the 50 states, with 38,030 in prison, a rate of 816 per 100,000…
In March, the commander in chief of the War on Drugs stood in front of a crowd of policymakers, advocates and recovering addicts to declare…
America's criminal justice system has, in many ways, become a substitute for the US's largely gutted mental health system. You may have heard something like that before,…
If you are one of the millions of people who have listened to the podcast “Serial” or watched Netflix’s series “Making a Murderer,” you may…
In the Land of the Free, one-quarter of the entire planet’s prison population, some 2.2 million people, currently languish behind bars; yet, an astonishing number…
Ted Cruz couldn't take it any longer. It was July 23, 2012. Houston. The final debate of the Republican runoff in Cruz's bid for a seat in…
Cops Gone Wild; Justice Gives Deep Cover Developments in Chicago and South Carolina bring into sharp focus the national crisis of police killings of unarmed…
War criminals are not born, they are made, or rather make themselves through the experience of having an inner motif of self-promotion directed to cultivating,…
The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks speak with our guest Bernard B. Kerik, former Police Commissioner of the City of New York.…
The Ferguson Commission Report: An Exercise in Futility? CNN Takes Its Turn As Carnival Barker At Two-Ring Circus The Ferguson Commission—a 16-member blue-ribbon panel appointed…