Survivors of Solitary Confinement
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine former prisoners who describe in detail what it’s like to be in solitary confinement.
Prison Town, USA
In our special collaboration with public television’s P.O.V., Directors Katie Galloway and Po Kutchins take us to “prison town, usa” where they explore how the industry affects correctional officers, their families, and whole community.
Thousand Kites
A growing coalition of criminal justice reform activists, called Thousand Kites, are fighting for change and they’re doing it through music, theatre, and audience participation.
A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support
In the last of our three-part series, A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support, we’ll hear from experts offering an insiders view on the continuing health care crisis in California’s prisons.
A Crisis of Care: Gina’s Story (Part 2)
On the second of our three-part series, ‘A Crisis of Care,’ a look inside California’s prison health care system, we continue ‘Gina’s Story.’
A Crisis of Care: Gina’s Story (Part 1)
This is the first of a three-part series, ‘A Crisis of Care,’ a look inside the prison health care system in the state of California, where we learn about ‘Gina’s Story’ within the prison system.
Whose Neighborhood is This Anyway?
On this edition, Making Contact intern Joaquin Palomino spoke to former gang members, and other mission residents, about gang injunctions, a controversial legal strategy that’s divided the community of San Francisco.
Beyond Bars: Community Resistance to Prison Expansion (encore edition)
On this edition, Dr. Gilmore, a key figure in the grassroots movement fighting prison expansion in California, extracts lessons from more than two decades of on-the-ground community organizing against what has been termed the “biggest prison building project in the history of world.”
Beyond Bars: Community Resistance to Prison Expansion
In the U.S., more than more than 2 million people live behind prison bars. Dr. Ruth Gilmore, a professor of geography at the University of Southern California and a long-time prison activist, extracts lessons from more than two decades of on-the-ground community organizing against what’s been termed the “biggest prison building project in the history of the world.”
Brothers at Odds: The U.S. Army vs. Lt. Ehren Watada
On this edition, Aaron Glantz sheds light on the events and issues surrounding the recent court martial of Lt. Watada.
