Prisons & Prisoners

Archives of the show until 2018. For recent archives, go to: The Marc Steiner Show at the Real News Network

April 21, 2015
Debating legalization
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Debating Marijuana Law Reform: Looking Through Lens Of Race, Our Prison Population & Our Communities

April 20, 2015 - Segment 3 - Listen to a debate and discussion around marijuana law reform, with: Retired Major Neill Franklin, Lawrence Grandpre, and Will Jones III.
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April 10, 2015
Senate President Mike Miller
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Annapolis Update: Pre-Trial Issues & Bail Reform In Maryland

April 10, 2015 - Segment 2 - The Maryland Legislative Session wraps up next week, and we examine a number of the issues covered during the session. In this segment, Charles Robinson and Doug Colbert discuss pre-trial issues and bail reform.
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April 8, 2015
billie
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Billie Holiday and the War of Drugs

April 7, 2015 - Segment 1 - Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Billie Holiday. In honor of her birth, we speak to Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the American Drug War, the centerpiece of which tells the tale of the ramifications of the drug war on Billie Holliday.
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March 11, 2015
Maryland parole reform
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Annapolis Update: Reforming Parole For Persons Serving Life Sentences In Maryland

March 9, 2015 - Segment 3 - We look at the issue of parole reform, in light of a proposed bill that would end the requirement that the governor (and not the parole board) make the final decision in cases involving persons serving life sentences.
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March 4, 2015
babybooking
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Local Action Against Wrongful Arrests of Young People

March 4, 2015 - Segment 3 - We are joined by Charnell D. Cobb-El who tells us about an action on Thursday, March 5th on the wrongful arrests by Baltimore City Police against young people of color as well as the school funding crisis.
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March 3, 2015
Juanita Ewell, Cherry Hill Urban Garden
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Sound Bites: Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice | Debating The Maryland Farmers’ Rights Act | Tribute To Juanita Ewell Of Cherry Hill Urban Garden

March 3, 2015 - Segment 3 - This week on Sound Bites, we talk about how radical farmers are using fresh food to fight racial injustice, debate the Farmers' Rights Act that's before the Maryland General Assembly, and make a tribute to a local hero, Cherry Hill Urban Garden's Juanita Ewell.
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March 2, 2015
Willacy Prison
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What The Prison Uprising In South Texas Says About Immigration & For-Profit Prisons In The United States

March 2, 2015 - Segment 4 - We look at the inmate uprising that happened last week at Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, Texas, known as "Ritmo," over inadequate medical conditions at this overcrowded for-profit facility.
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February 26, 2015
Bryan Stevenson
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Talking About Race With Bryan Stevenson Of The Equal Justice Initiative

February 25, 2015 - Segment 2 - We preview of the newest lecture in Open Society Institute-Baltimore's Talking About Race series, taking place Thursday night. I will talk with Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative, a law practice dedicated to defending some of America's most rejected and marginalized people, about his new book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.
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December 18, 2014
CIA Torture Memo
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National News Roundup: CIA Torture Memo, The Federal Budget & More

December 16, 2014 - Segment 2 - On our national roundtable, our panel of guests discusses topics of national importance including the CIA torture memo and the Federal Budget Bill, with Lenny McAllister, Will Marshall and Kevin Zeese.
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December 17, 2014
Thumbnail image Police Criminal Justice Crime Handcuffs Law Enforcement | ANNAPOLIS, MD -- 12/6/08 -- MD GANGS 07 HAIRSTON --Capt. Kevin King, of the Maryland Division of Corrections, Eastern Correctional Institution in Somerset County, holds handcuffs as he listens to his collegue Capt. Walter Holmes, also from Eastern, make his presentation. The two men are founders of a program called "CHOICES...Part of the Solution" and bring the program to young people at the Eastport Community Center. Their talk centers on keeping kids out of gangs and the criminal justice system. KIM HAIRSTON [Sun Photographer] #9085 MANDATORY CREDIT: Baltimore Examiner and Washington Examiner OUT
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Lead Up To The Annapolis Summit: Pre-Trial Issues

December 12, 2014 - Segment 2 - In our Lead Up to the Annapolis Summit, we take a look at pretrial issues that will be on the docket during the 2015 Maryland General Assembly, which opens on January 14 with Professor Doug Colbert and Public Defender Paul DeWolfe.
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December 14, 2014
Garden
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From The Archives: Baltimore Jail Growing Food & Flowers

December 11, 2014 - Segment 3 - We listen back to a special 2010 archive edition of the Steiner Show, part of our Urbanite Stories series. Marc speaks to Correctional Officer Maurice Smith of the Metropolitan Transition Center in Baltimore about a prison garden program he ran where inmates grew food and flowers, creating a serene and welcoming corner in an otherwise stark environment.
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December 1, 2014
Dr. Mark Kleiman
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From The Archives: Baltimore’s Dr. Mark Kleiman On Reducing Drugs, Violence & The Prison Population

November 28, 2014 - Segment 3 - Listen to a special archive edition of The Steiner Show, looking at ideas for reducing violence, drug consumption and incarceration, with Dr. Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy in the UCLA School of Public Affairs.
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October 27, 2014
Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black
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Piper Kerman, Author of ‘Orange Is The New Black’

October 24, 2014 - Segment 2 - Listen to my live interview with Piper Kerman, whose best-selling memoir of her time in prison, Orange is the New Black, is the basis for the popular television series of the same name. Kerman will be speaking at Center Stage in Baltimore on Monday as part of the Open Society Institute-Baltimore's Big Change event.
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October 26, 2014
Michelle Alexander
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Michelle Alexander On Mass Incarceration and African Americans

October 23, 2014 - Segment 5 - We close out the show with a special archive edition of The Marc Steiner Show, our conversation with civil rights litigator and legal scholar Michelle Alexander about mass incarceration and African Americans. Alexander is the author of the highly-acclaimed book The New Jim Crow.
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October 14, 2014
Eddie Conway
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Marshall “Eddie” Conway: Life After Prison & The Future of Baltimore

October 14, 2014 - Segment 1 - We have a conversation with former Black Panther Marshall "Eddie" Conway, who was released from prison earlier this year after being incarcerated for 44 years. We talk about his time in prison, his work with young men inside and outside prison, and Friend of a Friend, a mentoring project he started with American Friends Service Committee.
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July 17, 2014
Career criminals and reduced sentences
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Descamps v. United States: SCOTUS Decision Opens Way For Reduced Sentences For Violent Offenders

July 15, 2014 - Segment 2 - We examine the impact of a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Descamps v. United States, which has opened the way for dozens of federal inmates from Maryland who are currently serving long-term sentences to seek reduced sentences.
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May 26, 2014
conway
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Conversation With Eddie Conway

May 26, 2014 - Segment 2 - We listen to tape from a special evening Marc hosted with Eddie Conway last week at Red Emma's. Eddie Conway is a former Black Panther who was released from prison earlier this year after being incarcerated for 44 years. He discusses his time in prison, his work with young men inside and outside prison, and Friend of a Friend, a mentoring project he started with American Friends Service Committee. We also hear from Green Bay, one of the young men Eddie mentored who is part of Friend of a Friend.
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May 1, 2014
A prison philosophy program tells us what we can learn about life from lifers
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This Week In City Paper with Baynard Woods

April 30, 2014 - Segment 5 - We close the show with This Week in the City Paper, with Senior Editor Baynard Woods. He talks about this week's issue, which includes Baynard's feature "Heart of Darkness: A prison philosophy program tells us what we can learn from lifers."
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May 1, 2014
The House I Live In
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Mother To Mother: Ending the Murder and Violence in Our Communities

April 30, 2014 - Segment 4 - We discuss Mother To Mother: Let the Healing Begin: Ending the Murder and Violence in Our Communities, an event hosted by Institute of the Black World 21st Century. The event will take place Friday, May 2, at 7:00pm at the Real News Media Center, 235 Holliday Street, Baltimore.
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April 25, 2014
Fleet Maull
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Fleet Maull: From Prison to Meditation

April 25, 2014 - Segment 2 - We meet Fleet Maull, meditation teacher, who will be leading a workshop this weekend at Morgan State University called: Awakened Leadership: Community Engagement Practices for Creating Enlightened Society.
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March 25, 2014
three people who are on a hunger strike to protest conditions at the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, one of the largest immigration detainment centers in the US.
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Hunger Strike Inside U.S. Immigration Detainment Center

March 21, 2014 - Segment 3 - We talk about the three people who are on a hunger strike to protest conditions at the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, one of the largest immigration detainment centers in the US.
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March 19, 2014
Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal
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A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran

March 19, 2014 - Segment 4 - We meet Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal. They were arrested along the border between Iraq and Iran in 2009. They were accused by the Iranian authorities of being spies, though no evidence was ever presented to support that claim. Sarah Shourd was released 14 months later, and Bauer and Fattal were released in September 2011.
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February 26, 2014
Ban the Box
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Re-Entry For The Formerly Incarcerated

February 26, 2014 - Segment 2 - We turn to the subject of post-incarceration re-entry, with: Maryland State Senator Verna Jones-Rodwell; Baltimore Councilman Nick Mosby; and Jacqueline Robarge, Founder and Director of Power Inside.
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February 21, 2014
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Damien Echols Of The West Memphis Three

February 20, 2014 - Segment 4 - We speak with Damien Echols, who was part of the West Memphis Three. This group of three young men was falsely accused of the murders of three young boys in Arkansas in 1993. They were tried and convicted in 1994; Damien Echols was sentenced to death. After a new trial was called, all three men were released in 2011. We spoke to Echols about his book, Life After Death.
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February 21, 2014
CeCe McDonald
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CeCe McDonald, Trans Woman & Activist, Released From Prison

February 20, 2014 - Segment 3 - Listen to our interview with CeCe McDonald, a transgender woman and activist from Minneapolis, and Katie Burgess, Executive Director of Trans Youth Support Network in Minneapolis. McDonald was released from prison on January 13th after serving 19 months for her alleged involvement in stabbing a man with scissors.
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January 31, 2014
CeCe McDonald
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CeCe McDonald, Trans Woman & Activist, Released From Prison

January 31, 2014 - Segment 3 - Listen to our interview with CeCe McDonald, a transgender woman and activist from Minneapolis, and Katie Burgess, Executive Director of Trans Youth Support Network in Minneapolis. McDonald was released from prison on January 13th after serving 19 months for her alleged involvement in stabbing a man with scissors.
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November 19, 2013
Renisha McBride
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Race, Justice & Culture: Renisha McBride, Marissa Alexander and “Knockout”

November 18, 2013 - Segment 2 - We begin our show Monday morning with a look at a number of current stories that reflect upon issues of race, justice, and our culture. Topics include the case of Renisha McBride, the 19-year old Michigan woman who was fatally shot in the face by a homeowner after her car broke down and she walked onto his porch seeking help.
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November 19, 2013
Angela Davis
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Jarvis Tyner on “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners”

November 14, 2013 - Segment 4 - We close out our show at 10:30 with a discussion on an important movie that will be shown Thursday night at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Free Angela and All Political Prisoners. We will talk with Jarvis Tyner, long time friend of Angela Davis, Executive Vice-Chair of the Communist Party USA and founding member of the Black Radical Congress.
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November 12, 2013
Daniel Ellsberg
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Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man In America

November 8, 2013 - Segment 4 - Daniel Ellsberg joined Marc to discuss the new film about his life: The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. In 1970, Ellsberg was responsible for releasing the secret U.S.government report that documented illegal US involvement in Vietnam, documents that have become known as the Pentagon Papers.
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November 7, 2013
War on Drugs
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Failed War On Drugs: Solutions For The United States & Latin America

November 7, 2013 - Segment 3 - We turn our focus to the failed War on Drugs, and discuss alternatives that include legalization of marijuana and better outcomes for the United States and Latin America.
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October 28, 2013
OSI Baltimore
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OSI-Baltimore Celebrates Its 15-Year Anniversary

October 28, 2013 - Segment 4 - We acknowledge the 15th Anniversary of Open Society Institute-Baltimore, with: Diana Morris, Director of OSI-Baltimore; and Judge Andre Davis, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and is an OSI-Baltimore board member.
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September 30, 2013
Maryland State House
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MD Court of Appeals Ensures Poor Suspects Have Counsel At First Bail Hearing

September 30, 2013 - Segment 2 - Doug Colbert, University of Maryland Carey School of Law Professor, and Maryland State Senator Brian Frosh, discuss an important Maryland Court of Appeals decision mandating that poor suspects have access to counsel at all bail hearings.
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September 26, 2013
Unger Decision
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What The Unger Decision Means For Those Released

September 26, 2013 - Segment 3 - Walter Lomax joins us to talk about an upcoming town hall meeting focusing on juveniles convicted under the felony murder law, September 28 at Morgan State University. Lomax is Project Director of the Maryland Restorative Justice Initiative, a program of Fusion Partnerships.
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August 27, 2013
Baltimore, Md--7/25/13--Left, Alexander Mustafa embraces (facing camera) Saleem El-Amin outside Courthouse East after El-Amin and several inmates convicted of murder are released. Mustafa, who had been in prison, but has been out for 17 years, met El-Amin while they were incarcerated. The men just released were convicted before 1980 and the Court of Appeals ruled jurors had been given improper instructions. Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun--#1841
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MD Court Of Appeals Questions Fairness Of Jury Convictions Before 1980

August 27, 2013 - Segment 1 - We begin our show with a discussion on a Maryland Court of Appeals ruling last year that called into question the fairness of jury convictions before 1980, and led to the release from prison last week of five men who had been convicted of murder.
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August 27, 2013
Chelsea Manning
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Trans & Incarcerated: Chelsea Manning and “Orange Is The New Black”

August 26, 2013 - Segment 1 - We begin the week with a conversation about transgender people who are incarcerated, in light of Bradley Manning's announcement last week that she identifies as a woman named Chelsea.
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July 25, 2013
Shane Bauer
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Shane Bauer On Solitary Confinement

July 24, 2013 Segment 2 - We sit down with Shane Bauer, an independent journalist based in Oakland who wrote an article about solitary confinement for Mother Jones titled "Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside American Prisons."
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July 25, 2013
tank
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Philosophers’ Roundtable On Violence In USA

July 24, 2013 - Segment 1 - We speak with religious, ethical, and philosophical thinkers about violence in our country. Why is violence so omnipresent in our daily lives? Is the United States an exceptionally violent nation? What does it mean to create a more humane and just society?
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July 12, 2013
California Prison Hunger Strike
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National News Roundtable: California Prison Hunger Strike, Sterilization Of Women Prisoners, And Anti-Abortion Laws In TX & NC

July 12, 2013 - Segment 1 - We begin our show with a national news roundtable. Among other issues, we will discuss the hunger strike taking place and the sterilization of women prisoners in the California prison system, and the recently passed anti-abortion laws in Texas and North Carolina.
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June 20, 2013
baltimore police vacancies
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Local News & Politics Roundup: Baltimore Police Vacancies, Statewide Corruption Investigation, And Homicides

June 20, 2013 - Segment 4 - A roundtable of guests analyzes local news and politics, including vacancies in the Baltimore police department, a statewide investigation into the corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, and homicides in the city.
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June 12, 2013
drug war
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Fighting Against The Drug War

June 12, 2013 - Segment 2 - We hear from Retired Major Neill Franklin and Don Rojas. They join us to discuss next Monday's "Day of Direct Action at the White House to Call on President Obama to End the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration and Invest in America's 'Dark Ghettos,'" which is organized by the Institute of the Black World.
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May 30, 2013
Bradley Manning Trial starts Monday
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U.S. Army Soldier Bradley Manning’s Trial Starts Monday

May 30, 2013 - Segment 2 - Jesselyn Radack and Kevin Zeese update us on the trial starting next week for US Army soldier Bradley Manning, who was arrested in 2010 on suspicion of handing over classified Army documents to whistle blower Wikileaks.
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May 28, 2013
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Sound Bites: Urban Farming, No SNAP Benefits For Violent Offenders, & A Fermentation Recipe!

May 28, 2013 - Hour 2 - On this live episode of Sound Bites, we discuss urban farming with Five Seeds Farm and the Baltimore Free Farm, the Senate's amendments to the Farm Bill that would bar people convicted of violent crimes from receiving benefits for life, and fermentation with Sandor Katz.
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May 20, 2013
Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup
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Higher-Than-Average Rate Of Inmate Abuse In MD Prison: What Would Real Reform Take?

May 20, 2013 - Segment 1 - According to a Department of Justice study released last week, the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup has higher-than-average rates of inmate abuse with nearly 13 percent of inmates at that facility reported being abused either by a fellow inmate or staff member.
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May 15, 2013
Marian House
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Marian House: 30 Women 30 Stories

May 15, 2013 - Segment 3 - We speak about 30 Women, 30 Stories: Journeys of Recovery and Transformation, a new book and exhibit about the courageous women of Marian House, a Baltimore institution that has offered rehabilitative services and housing to homeless women and their children for the past 30 years.
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May 6, 2013
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Former Black Panther Assata Shakur Added To The FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List

May 6, 2013 -Segment -2-Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report.com and Peniel E. Joseph, Professor of History at Tufts University talked about Assata Shakur placing on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List.
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April 25, 2013
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Race, Class, and Gender in Prison Culture

April 25, 2013 -Segment 1- We continue our conversation about the federal indictments naming 25 people, including corrections officers at Baltimore City Detention Center and members of the Black Guerilla Family, with racketeering, drug and money laundering charges.
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