prisons

Convicts Become Classmates

June 12, 2018 | Clip

As a part of our multi-platform public media initiative, “Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America,” we take you inside Monmouth University’s academic exchange program where students get an education on mass incarceration inside a maximum security prison.

Does Bail Discriminate Against the Poor?

July 26, 2016 | Clip

America has the largest prison population in the world, and in New York City, 4000 people are locked up in jail, although they haven't been convicted of any crime. They remain there, awaiting trial, not because their crime demands it,…