Rattling The Bars

111 Episodes

1. 'Help us to get better': Maryland is failing women released from prison

   Published: 5/17/2024
2. The 'Women's Cut'—Maryland's only women's prison

   Published: 4/24/2024
3. Survivors of sexual assault in juvenile detention are speaking out

   Published: 3/25/2024
4. 30 political prisoners' oral histories collected in an unprecedented new book

   Published: 3/11/2024
5. 'Second look' bills offer a chance at freedom to longtime prisoners

   Published: 3/4/2024
6. Prisoners, unions sue Alabama, alleging 'modern-day slavery'

   Published: 2/26/2024
7. This is why coming home from prison is so difficult for so many

   Published: 2/19/2024
8. Fixing Baltimore's 'downward spiral' of poverty, disinvestment, and over-policing

   Published: 2/12/2024
9. The 'Black Chronicle' offers an unprecedented look at Black history

   Published: 2/5/2024
10. Wisconsin's prison lockdowns: No visitors, few showers, and no end in sight

    Published: 1/29/2024
11. A prison librarian's efforts to humanize the stories of incarcerated people

    Published: 1/29/2024
12. 'No way a human should be': Abolishing solitary confinement in DC

    Published: 1/15/2024
13. Three former Maryland prisoners explain the state's disastrous parole system

    Published: 1/8/2024
14. The 13th Amendment legalizes slavery—and many states have their own version

    Published: 12/18/2023
15. For incarcerated people, the holidays are a reminder of captivity

    Published: 12/4/2023
16. Malik Rahim: Climate justice and the prisoners' struggle go together

    Published: 11/27/2023
17. Baton Rouge cops tortured detainees at 'Brave Cave' black site

    Published: 11/6/2023
18. Maryland's parole system 'conditions people for despair'

    Published: 10/3/2023
19. El Salvador's 'gang crackdown' and the permanent state of exception

    Published: 9/25/2023
20. The Cop City RICO charges and America's road to fascism

    Published: 9/18/2023