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This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter with jails and to chronicle the progress ground-up efforts have made in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, adoption of technology and other crucial aspects of the move toward decarceration at local levels.

Recent Episodes
  • ICE Chief of Staff Michael Lumpkin Speaks on the Record About Conditions Inside Detention Centers, the Treatment of LGBTQ+ Detainees, and More
    Nov 4, 2024 – 00:21:01
  • Why Transgender Immigrants Don’t Need Allies, They Need Accomplices
    Nov 4, 2024 – 00:29:55
  • Angel Island, and Why the U.S. Has Historically Used Islands to Isolate, Process, and Deter Immigrants
    Nov 4, 2024 – 00:30:26
  • Mothers Seeking Asylum Face Much More Than Documentation Challenges
    Nov 4, 2024 – 00:32:57
  • This Wyoming Lawyer Is Creating a Legal Safety Net for Asylum Seekers
    Nov 4, 2024 – 00:31:25
  • Accusations and Denials About the Treatment of Trans Migrants in ICE Custody, Part 2
    Nov 4, 2024 – 00:17:41
  • Accusations and Denials About the Treatment of Trans Migrants in ICE Custody, Part 1
    Nov 4, 2024 – 00:23:22
  • Why These Afghan Women Had to Re-Learn to Be Mothers as Refugees in the US
    Nov 4, 2024 – 00:31:08
  • Migrants Risk Their Lives During Hunger Strikes Inside ICE Detention, Part 2
    Nov 4, 2024 – 00:29:09
  • Migrants Risk Their Lives During Hunger Strikes Inside ICE Detention, Part 1
    Nov 4, 2024 – 00:26:08
  • 70 Million Investigates: ICE x Gender
    Nov 4, 2024 – 00:02:00
  • Introducing Still Paying the Price: Reparations in Real Terms
    Jul 26, 2023 – 00:03:50
  • What’s the Public’s Role in Upholding a Broken Criminal Justice System?
    Dec 26, 2022 – 00:28:51
  • How Those Drowning in Carceral Debt Are Lining Others’ Pockets
    Dec 19, 2022 – 00:44:19
  • Why Policing Our Schools Backfires
    Dec 12, 2022 – 00:34:52
  • How Jailhouse Informants Rig the Justice System
    Dec 5, 2022 – 00:34:36
  • Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2
    Nov 28, 2022 – 00:41:30
  • Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1
    Nov 21, 2022 – 00:47:59
  • Grand Juries, the Black Box of Justice Reform?
    Nov 14, 2022 – 00:42:22
  • Highway Robbery: How a Small-town Traffic Trap Became a Legal Black Hole
    Nov 7, 2022 – 00:44:48
  • How Guilty Pleas Fastrack and Derail Justice
    Oct 31, 2022 – 00:40:37
  • They’re Running for Office to Change the Criminal (Injustice) System
    Oct 24, 2022 – 00:42:50
  • Our Final Season Launches October 24!
    Oct 17, 2022 – 00:02:37
  • When a State Treats Drug Addiction Like a Health Issue, Not a Crime
    Nov 15, 2021 – 00:35:25
  • When “Bail Reform” Isn't
    Nov 8, 2021 – 00:27:23
  • Taking Mental Health Crises Out of Police Hands
    Nov 1, 2021 – 00:34:39
  • Forget Reform, They Want Abolition
    Oct 25, 2021 – 00:27:04
  • An Effort to Hold Prosecutors Accountable
    Oct 18, 2021 – 00:32:10
  • We Went Back to See How These Reforms Worked
    Oct 11, 2021 – 00:38:10
  • Why COVID-19 Goes from Jails to Communities
    Oct 4, 2021 – 00:36:03
  • How Black Women Are Rightfully “Taking Seats at the Table”
    Sep 27, 2021 – 00:29:36
  • Curing “Petty, Everyday Injustice” in Cook County
    Sep 20, 2021 – 00:36:21
  • Where Juvenile Detention Looks More Like Teens Hanging Out
    Sep 13, 2021 – 00:28:35
  • Season 4 Launches September 13!
    Aug 30, 2021 – 00:02:14
  • Where the COVID-19 Pandemic Might Finally Ignite Change in the Bail Bonds System
    Nov 16, 2020 – 00:36:01
  • TRAILER: Future Hindsight!
    Nov 13, 2020 – 00:02:58
  • Where Housing, Not Jails, Is the Answer to Homelessness
    Nov 9, 2020 – 00:41:09
  • On Tribal Land, Banishment, Rehabilitation and Re-entry Add Up to Justice
    Nov 2, 2020 – 00:36:34
  • Where Hep C Remains Untreated for Those in Custody
    Oct 26, 2020 – 00:33:49
  • No Longer Waiting for Top-Down Reform
    Oct 19, 2020 – 00:31:08
  • TRAILER: Say Their Name!
    Oct 15, 2020 – 00:02:59
  • A Special Court Keeping Native Americans Out of Jail
    Oct 12, 2020 – 00:35:25
  • How the Asylum Process Became Another Carceral Matrix
    Oct 5, 2020 – 00:45:36
  • Why Detroit Might Be the True Test of Whether More Cameras Make Cities Safer
    Sep 28, 2020 – 00:40:13
  • Voting from Jail Is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago
    Sep 21, 2020 – 00:40:06
  • COVID-19 Makes Deciding Who Gets Out of Jail Urgent
    Sep 14, 2020 – 00:36:43
  • TRAILER: Driving The Green Book!
    Sep 3, 2020 – 00:04:50
  • Season 3 Starts Sept. 14!
    Aug 31, 2020 – 00:02:31
  • Two Rural Counties Take Diverting Paths to Jail Reform
    Sep 16, 2019 – 00:30:31
  • Where Texting Brings People to Court
    Sep 9, 2019 – 00:27:26
Recent Reviews
  • Anjadoodle
    Response to your inquiry
    I’ve only listened to the 1st three episodes so far. I appreciate what you’re doing here. I am currently looking at over 300 years even though the charges are likely to be dropped because they are silly on their face. It still causes me and my family stress and this shouldn’t be happening to me or anyone else.
  • Love amour
    Amazing informative
    This podcast gave so much information and understanding in the criminal justice system. I love mostly how the host , treated each story with delicacy.
  • JenH1123
    One sided
    Great reporting and information but extremely one sided. Would love to see the attention and effort put in to see the full picture on both sides of the issues so everyone can learn through different perspectives.
  • ReadNJ
    I learn something with every episode
    This podcast does important work by educating listeners. Highly recommended
  • Tsnav
    More far-left propaganda
    Why does “criminal justice reform” always boil down to turning the criminal into the victim? It’s actually very simple….don’t break the law and you have zero chances of going to prison. Black and brown men aren’t being targeted. This has been thoroughly debunked time and time again. The statistics just do not back up this narrative. The creators of this podcasts are run of the mill race hustlers. Period
  • SharpeKat
    Two Thumbs Up !!
    Breathtaking...Heartbreaking...We got some work to do!!!!!
  • LBS301
    An Excellent & Very Necessary Production
    I’ve cried at some of the stories and inhumanity experienced by many of the folks featured in the episodes. I’ve also been heartened by the efforts made bybvarious reformers and crusaders also being covered. May they prevail!
  • Nkay666
    Very well done!
    This type of show is so desperately needed! Thank you!
  • T llama
    Thought provoking
    I love the way the topics are explored! I can’t wait to share this with my students. Eye opening!
  • grateful biped
    Bail podcast
    I agree with the majority of the points made in this podcast. However, when someone is accused of vehicular manslaughter - a 19 yr old dies in a burning car because of this situation - I don’t think it’s unnecessary to require a substantial amount of bail so the defendant doesn’t flee. This is a tragedy for both families involved. I hate how the mother with the 3 kids has to suffer for two years while she waits for the trial. I don’t understand why she keeps putting $ in his jail account. I hope I would pay my bills & support my children instead of giving $ to the adult in jail. She is a victim too but let’s not forget the 19 yr old who lost their life & the family who’s mourning. What a horrific death, my God. Let’s adjust bail for non-violent crimes, not vehicular manslaughter & any other violent crimes.
  • shavonvonn
    Incredible
    Seriously profound. Nothing like it, this podcast is changing lives. WOW
  • nessa1970
    Profound
    Listened to the whole season in one day. Thank you!
  • Kozmo 702
    Keep History Alive...
    ...no matter how ugly and dark it is. Love this podcast because it pulls back the curtain on TRUE American history. Keep the episodes coming. Keep our history alive.
  • Et c'est parti.
    Great Reporting
    I think the 70 Million team does an incredible job of bringing together multiple stakeholders to tell the full story of a given topic. I’ve learned a lot from listening even though the subjects can be sobering. Thanks for great reporting.
  • LucyPodcaster
    LifeotheOutside
    This podcast shines a light on one of the darkest realities of our country - the criminal justice system. Thank you 70 million for helping us listen to, imagine, and feel the impact, one story at a time.
  • HouseOfPodDenver
    A much needed podcast for a critical historical moment
    We are all 70 Million, and I can't wait for this podcast. There is so much good stuff going on here, open-sourced, compelling audio starting with the local jail and bringing it to national conversation. A beautiful host voice. Proud of what the team at Lantiqua Williams & Co are doing, and looking forward to hearing how this series unfolds.
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