People from all walks of life have dealt with incarceration. this book will help children with understanding the process of where their loved one has gone.

DJ Fata is finally able to purchase the DJ decks he has been saving up for. Yankuba gets accepted to Bangor University in Wales. After years of struggle, things are looking up for the two young Gambian migrants. However, with countries...

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to East Oakland, California, to visit the legendary plant nursery Planting Justice, which primarily hires formerly incarcerated people. They provide a fair wage and benefits to former...

Brian was down on his luck and sleeping rough in Liverpool. Lawrence was a successful hotelier and property developer. David was a self-proclaimed hippy in a dead-end job. Together they formed an unlikely alliance and created a homeless...

The Salem Witch Trials are one of the most infamous tragedies in American history, yet most people do not know the story of the enslaved woman at the heart of the hysteria, the first accused witch, Tituba.

Present at the Stonewall Uprising of 1959, pioneering transgender activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy lived through the HIV/AIDS epidemic to fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States and beyond.

Despite being on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list, Angela Davis went on to become an international symbol of resistance against social injustice.

Carl Portman, Manager of Chess in Prisons (English Chess Federation), Tom Dart, Sheriff, Cook County (Illinois, USA), and Dr Mikhail Korenman, Director of Cook County Jail Chess Program talk about the extensive feedback they received...

Carl Portman, Manager of Chess in Prisons (English Chess Federation), Tom Dart, Sheriff, Cook County (Illinois, USA), and Dr Mikhail Korenman, Director of Cook County Jail Chess Program talk about the many benefits of introducing chess...

Carl Portman, Manager of Chess in Prisons (English Chess Federation), Tom Dart, Sheriff, Cook County (Illinois, USA), and Dr Mikhail Korenman, Director of Cook County Jail Chess Program talk about the many benefits of intrducing chess...

Community Rules and Laws helps students comprehend the importance of rules and regulations within a community. They will learn how and why communities create and enforce laws, with a focus on safety, fairness, and consequences for...

The US imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Today, Danielle explores why so many Americans are incarcerated and why we've turned to private prisons to hold that population.

Akala talks to the Guardian’s Owen Jones about the dangerous legacy of empire, which he argues is directly linked to the black-on-black violence narrative around knife crime in the UK today. The musician and author says he does not...

Peter Krykant, who operates a van in Glasgow where people can safely take illegal drugs, is running for Holyrood as part of a campaign calling for the Scottish government to establish legal sites. A former heroin addict, he is pushing...

Adama Traoré died in police custody last year. His family’s struggle for justice has put police brutality back under the spotlight in France, and his older sister Assa is leading the battle to find out the truth about his death. Iman...

Last year, the street artist Stik got permission for a major new mural in his neighbourhood, an area of the East End of London that now embodies gentrification at its most extreme. So he asked the denizens of Old Shoreditch – the vicars,...

Filmed on the plains of north-western New South Wales, this documentary looks at one man's fight against the scourge of Indigenous imprisonment in his community. Inside Out tells the story of a pastor and former prison guard, Uncle Isaac...

The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological experiment conducted in the summer of 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors.

In episode 30 of Supreme Court Briefs, the Supreme Court makes an important ruling, and the state of Georgia and Andrew Jackson completely ignore it.

In episode 13 of Supreme Court Briefs, Eugene Debs gives a speech criticizing war and praising socialism. He promptly gets arrested for breaking the Sedition Act, and spends the next several years fighting for his freedom.

In episode 9 of Supreme Court Briefs, a man can't afford a lawyer, struggles to defend himself in court, gets convicted of a crime he didn't commit, writes a letter, and everything turns out all groovy.

In episode 6 of Supreme Court Briefs, you have the right to remain silent. Mr. Beat looks at the origins of the Miranda rights. I'll give you a hint- they are named after a guy named Miranda.

Legal scholar Nita Farahany (Duke University) describes how neuroscience is involved in the legal process.

Duke University legal scholar Nita Farahany describes the varying and evolving societal rationales for punishment in our legal systems.