Introducing - Wrongful Conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco | Season 2

Six new, inspiring episodes of Wrongful Conviction, hosted by Lauren Bright Pacheco, that celebrate the potential of human connection to empower ordinary people to overcome extraordinary odds and injustices. Real individuals who unexpectedly became one another’s personal heroes by turning tragedy i…

Introducing - Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County: Preview

In Bone Valley Season 3 | GRAVES COUNTY,  Maggie Freleng takes us to a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, where a terrible discovery on the front lawn of a middle school invites a string of amateur and professional investigators to try to solve a murder. Maggie is the latest investigator to get…

Introducing - Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County

In Season 1 of Bone Valley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King tells a story of a man, Leo Schofield, fighting to prove his innocence in the case of his wife Michelle’s murder. In Season 2, “JEREMY” Gilbert King brings us a story about her actual killer, Jeremy Scott, fighting to prove his…

Marc Bookman, author of A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays

Jason Flom talks with Marc Bookman about his latest book, A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays. Marc Bookman is the director of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation and has served in the Homicide Unit of the Defender Association of Philadelphia. He is a tireless ad…

Emani Davis and her family’s calling to live a life dedicated to serving others

Emani Davis is the founder of The Omowale Project, working to help her community imagine and secure liberation for themselves and the collective. Emani has spent decades serving directly impacted people and running sole proprietor businesses supporting BIPOC-led nonprofit organizations. Righteous …

Lola N'sangou on pursuing abolition to reform our criminal justice system

Lola N’sangou (pronounced “Sango,”) is the executive director of Mass Liberation Arizona, building a movement for abolition in the nation's 5th most incarcerated state. Lola has been organizing to change the criminal punishment system since she was incarcerated from 2003 to 2014. While incarcerated…

Dr. Brittany White on ending mass incarceration

Dr. Brittany White is an organizer, strategist, and trainer at Live Free, mobilizing the faith community to fight to end mass incarceration and the scourge of gun violence in the United States. Brittany’s work centers on the unique experiences of women and how the criminal legal system impacts them…

Dr. Nicky Ali Jackson on treating the trauma that stems from being wrongfully convicted

Dr. Nicky Ali Jackson works at Purdue University Northwest (PNW) where she serves as a Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, and the Executive Director of the Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance. She also serves as President of the Willie T. Donald E…

Romarilyn Ralston on building a more just justice system

Romarilyn Ralston is a Black feminist, prison abolitionist and scholar working to interrupt criminalization at the intersections of race, gender, and education. Presently, Romarilyn serves as executive director of College & Community Fellowship, which focuses on providing access to higher education…

Adnan Khan on changing the law from a California prison cell

Adnan Khan is the founder of Firstwatch Films, a video project first conceived and led entirely by incarcerated people inside San Quentin State Prison. Adnan Khan was also the executive director of Re:Store Justice, working with currently and formerly incarcerated people, survivors of crime, distri…