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Opposing Solitary Confinement from Behind Bars w/ Christopher Blackwell

We’ll spend the hour today in conversation with Christopher Blackwell, an award-winning journalist currently incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center. He is serving a 45-year prison sentence for taking another human’s life during a drug robbery and has been incarcerated since 2003. We’ll talk about the book he’s contributing to about the terrors of solitary … Continued


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Death by Prison – Examining Life Without the Possibility of Parole Sentencing

In recent decades, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has developed into a distinctive penal form in the United States, one firmly entrenched in US policy-making, judicial and prosecutorial decision-making, correctional practice, and public discourse. LWOP is now a routine practice, but how it came to be so remains in question. Fifty years … Continued


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Palestine Post: Healthcare Workers Reportback from Gaza and Lebanon; Israel Expands Annexations into Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, Gaza

As we’ve done just about every Monday since October of last year, Law & Disorder returns to our recurring segment – The Palestine Post, discussing the latest news from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and on their border regions, and the efforts that people are taking around the world, to stop it. We’ll start in conversation … Continued


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States with anti-abortion policies are refusing to track maternal mortality; Survivors reach settlements after widespread sexual abuse at women’s prison FCI Dublin

Today our show opens with Cassandra Jaramillo, an investigative journalist and reporter at ProPublica. Her latest story for ProPublica, co-reported with Kavitha Surana, Mariam Elba, Robin Fields and Ziva Branstetter, is titled “Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out.” Follow Cassandra on social media … Continued


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Basketball, Ascension, and Palestine w/ Hanif Abdurraqib; Plus Resistance in Residence Artist Chris Burger

On today’s show, we’ll be in conversation with the author of one of the most anticipated books of the year. The book is called There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, and it’s a poetic love letter to basketball; also to being rooted in Columbus Ohio, where the author has lived most of his … Continued