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.
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Bonus: COVID-19 and Democracy with The Democracy Group
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Host: Jenna Spinelle, Communications Specialist at the McCourtney Institute for Democracy; Host, Democracy Works. @JennaSpinelle
Guests: Luke Knittig, Senior Director of Communications at the McCain Institute; Host, In The Arena. @LukeKnittig / Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas Austin; Host, This is Democracy. @JeremiSuri / Rachel Tausenfreund, Editorial Director at the German Marshall Fund of the United States; Host, Out of Order. @thousandfriend / Weston Wamp, Senior Political Strategist and Consultant at Issue One; Host, Swamp Stories. @westonwamp