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My Tio Viga's Fish Tank in the Bronx
My Tio Viga had grand fish-tanks—huge glass ones right in his living room, filled with all types of fish and treasure chest ornaments and colored pebbles. I remember just sitting there as a kid,...
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Dodging Decarceration: The Shell Game of ‘Getting Smart’ on Crime
Before we break out the champagne, or before we begin thinking that we are indeed on our way to a more humane criminal justice system, there is much that we might scrutinize more carefully. It is...
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No Lawyers Allowed
On the afternoon of June 30, 2003, Derrick Hamilton was escorted downstairs to face his fate, at a disciplinary hearing at Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. The hearing officer was Jim...
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Outside the Walls
“I didn’t go to prison because I was a saint. I went to prison because of my lifestyle. Since the age of 13 I was a gangbanger, and did what gangbangers do. I’m 49 years... The post Outside the Walls...
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Kids Doing Life
When you’re sixteen or seventeen do you really think about what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with? Sometimes, sure. But not all the time. There’s science to show that teens don’t think like......
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HOST INTRODUCTION: When you’re sixteen or seventeen do you really think about what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with? Sometimes, sure. But not all the time. There’s science to show that teens...
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Release Day
For eighteen years, California’s three strikes law leveled harsh penalties against repeat felons: anyone with two felony convictions received 25 years to life for committing a third felony. In 2012,...
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Release Day [Rebroadcast] + Announcement
It’s official, and it’s one more amazing step into the future at Life of the Law: we have a new Executive Director. Six years after Nancy Mullane, Tom Hilbink and Shannon Heffernan launched the...
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