Rattling The Bars
A podcast by The Real News Network - Mondays
142 Episodes
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Illegal to be homeless? The Supreme Court Grants Pass ruling w/Jeff Singer
Published: 7/30/2024 -
Heat inside CA prison killed Adrienne Boulware—who's responsible?
Published: 7/22/2024 -
Slavery once split up Black families. Today, prisons do the same thing.
Published: 7/15/2024 -
'Survival pending revolution': Dominque Conway on education, political abolition, and reform
Published: 7/8/2024 -
Double punishment—the truth about supervised release
Published: 7/4/2024 -
54 years later, this former Black Panther is still behind bars
Published: 6/26/2024 -
Prison deprived her of a father—she's fighting to get him back
Published: 6/17/2024 -
The prison system isn't 'broken'—it's designed to traumatize Black people en masse
Published: 6/10/2024 -
Leonard Peltier and the history of the American Indian Movement w/Rachel Thunder
Published: 6/3/2024 -
The American Indian Movement and Leonard Peltier w/Ward Churchill
Published: 6/3/2024 -
The reality of Black historical trauma makes healing a form of justice
Published: 6/3/2024 -
'Help us to get better': Maryland is failing women released from prison
Published: 5/17/2024 -
The 'Women's Cut'—Maryland's only women's prison
Published: 4/24/2024 -
Survivors of sexual assault in juvenile detention are speaking out
Published: 3/25/2024 -
30 political prisoners' oral histories collected in an unprecedented new book
Published: 3/11/2024 -
'Second look' bills offer a chance at freedom to longtime prisoners
Published: 3/4/2024 -
Prisoners, unions sue Alabama, alleging 'modern-day slavery'
Published: 2/26/2024 -
This is why coming home from prison is so difficult for so many
Published: 2/19/2024 -
Fixing Baltimore's 'downward spiral' of poverty, disinvestment, and over-policing
Published: 2/12/2024 -
The 'Black Chronicle' offers an unprecedented look at Black history
Published: 2/5/2024
Rattling the Bars puts the voices of the people most harmed by our system of mass incarceration at the center of our reporting on the fight to end it. The show was founded by the late Black Panther and political prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway, and is now hosted by Charles Hopkins, better known as Mansa Musa, who himself spent 48 years behind bars.Rattling the Bars offers an honest look at the lives of prisoners, returning citizens, their families, and their communities. With Rattling the Bars, by presenting hard data and real-life stories, we examine and seek to shift public opinion around the misconception that incarceration, punishment, and increased policing make cities safer—the truth of which has been disproven by countless studies. The series examines the history and root causes of the current so-called justice system. It showcases individuals and communities nationwide who are grappling with real solutions to problems created by the prison-industrial complex.Help us continue producing Rattling the Bars by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletter