Unprisoned: Stories From The System
From New Orleans, Louisiana, the world’s incarceration capital, stories at the intersection of human lives and the criminal legal system. 711070
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“If you grew up struggling, then you my audience,” says Jahi Salaam, an 18-year-old rapper and a poet. Jahi is from New Orleans. His first name, Jahi,…
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We are all living with mass incarceration one way or another. It affects everyone, passively or actively.I was recently sitting in the beautiful sanctuary…
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What do you do when a member of your family is locked up for a crime you are sure he didn’t commit? Sheila Phipps paints.“That’s the guy that was…
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Bring Your Own is a nomadic storytelling series that takes place in unconventional spaces within the community. Each month, eight storytellers have eight…
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Louisiana is the incarceration capital of the world. That means more families have a loved one behind bars than in any other place.This is Unprisoned. I’m…
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The way our criminal justice system works, there’s a significant cost to just being accused of a crime. Innocent or not, one way or another, you still…
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Our ongoing series Unprisoned has been bringing you stories of how mass incarceration affects New Orleans.Last time, we learned about New Orleans…
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Over the next several months, Unprisoned will look at how mass incarceration affects New Orleans — how people are doing time outside. We start at New…
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WWNO and producer Eve Abrams have launched Unprisoned: Stories From the System, a project exploring criminal justice and corrections in New Orleans, the…
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Democrat John Bel Edwards has been elected to serve as Louisiana’s next governor. That’s partly because more voters than expected cast ballots in…