Random Incarceration Podcasts

Each year, millions of Americans travel abroad and more than 3,000 are imprisoned every year. Many of them are wrongfully convicted, and many of them are told they will never go home again.

From Focus Features and L.A. Times Studios comes the brand-new podcast series, CONVICTED: ACROSS BORDERS. Hosted by famed lawyer and bestselling author, Marcia Clark, we’ll hear straight from the mouths of the men and women who lived through these trials. Through these stories we’ll explore how seemingly benign actions can lead to incarceration in foreign lands, how to navigate different legal systems when you don’t even speak the language, and who one turns to when the closest help is thousands of miles away.

Five unimaginably harrowing stories. Five traumatic fights for freedom. And five incredible true cases with emotional homecomings that have to be heard to be believed.

Convicted: Across Borders is produced by L.A. Times Studios and Treefort Media.

This podcast series is funded by Focus Features and produced by L.A. Times Studios. The Los Angeles Times newsroom was not involved in the creation of this series.

Categories: Society & Culture, True Crime, TV & Film

Tags: focus features, imprisonment, incarceration, locked up abroad, Marcia Clark, Matt Damon, Stillwater, Tom McCarthy, travel, true-crime

Next Step Now is recorded with one audience in mind: men and women currently living inside prison fences.

Through stories and interviews with authors, artists, members of the faith community, returned citizens and more, our goal is to inspire and challenge you to take one step forward right now…no matter where you are.

We believe in the power of redemption and living a resilient life as a renewed individual on purpose.

This podcast is a product of Timothy’s Gift, a prison outreach started in 2009 to take a message of love, hope and worth inside prison fences.

Categories: Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

Tags: challenge, encouragement, incarceration, inspirational, life lessons, Motivation, positivity, Prison

Earning Freedom offers insight into strategies that empower people through struggle. Michael Santos went to prison as a consequence of bad decisions he made as a young man. While serving a 45-year prison term, he learned lessons that inspired him to prepare for success. Through Earning Freedom, Michael shares those lessons and shows how they led to his success upon release. He also interviews others who successfully overcame struggle.

Categories: Education, Health & Fitness

Tags: business, Education, empowerment, Frankl, incarceration, inspiration, leadership, Mandela, marriage, Motivation, Prison, santos, selfhelp, Socrates, success

Justice in America, hosted by Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith, is a podcast for everyone interested in criminal justice reform— from those new to the system to experts who want to know more. Each episode we cover a new criminal justice issue. We explain how it works and look at its impact on people, particularly poor people and people of color. We’ll also interview activists, practitioners, experts, journalists, organizers, and others, to learn. By the end of the episode, you’ll walk away with a better understanding of what drives mass incarceration and what can fix it.

Categories: Education, News

Tags: America, criminal, History, incarceration, jail, justice, law, Politics, Prison

The American mental health system is broken beyond repair. Rather than trying to tweak a system which fails everyone, it is time to commit to a bold vision for a better way forward. This podcast explores the American system against the plumb line of an international best practice, recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO), in Trieste, Italy. The 40-year old Trieste model demonstrates how a community-based treatment system upholds the human rights of the people served.The Trieste story is anti-institutional and models the therapeutic value of social connection. Topics will address contemporary challenges in the American failed mental health system as contrasted with the Italian approach toward accoglienza – or radical hospitality – as the underpinning of their remarkable culture of caring for people. Interviews will touch upon how the guiding principles of the Italian system – social recovery, whole person care, system accountability, and the human right to a purposeful life – are non-negotiable aspects if we are to have any hope of forging a new way forward in our American mental health system.This podcast is curated and hosted by Kerry Morrison, founder and project director of Heart Forward LA (https://www.heartforwardla.org/). Heart Forward is collaborating with Peer Mental Health as the technical partner in producing this podcast (https://www.peermentalhealth.com/about/). Kerry Morrison is also the author of the blog www.accoglienza.us.

Categories: Health & Fitness

Tags: bipolar disorder, hipaa, homelessness, incarceration, mental illness, mental-health, peers, schizophrenia, system change, Trieste

Short stories. No annoying ads. No mercenary pitches. Just stories to warm your heart. Vetted published articles/tales/short stories (L.A.Times, Seattle Times, Teacher Magazine, etc.) by Paul H.Karrer about: Kids, Teachers, Parents, Education, Korea, Incarceration, Samoa, Peace Corps, New Zealand, California, Connecticut, Teaching, Dogs, Chess, Multicultural Marriage, Foods-real or imagined and more. Most are light-hearted.

Categories: Education, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

Tags: chess, dogs, Education, guns, incarceration, Kids, korea, life, Other, Peace Corps, samoa, school, teachers, wife

Presented by Men of Valor. Rudy Kalis, sportscaster, talks with a different man; each one on a journey from incarceration to reconciliation. So join the conversation reconciling men to God, their families, and society.

Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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