Criminal justice

Podcasts

"Freeing an Innocent Man from Prison," from Fresh Air, 8 July 2021 -- added 2.5.23
"Locked Up: The Prison Labor System that Built Business Empires," from Reveal, 17 September 2022. -- added 10.30.22 (note: this one has a Cumberland Plateau, TN connection!)
"How a 7-year Prison Sentence Turns Into over 100," from Reveal, 30 April 2022. -- added 10.30.22
"27 Years in Solitary Confinement," from The New York Times - The Daily, 15 April 2022.
"Psychologist Examines What a 'Rapid Evolution' in Policing Might Look Like," from Fresh Air, 22 April 2021.
Is America Engaged in a 'Vicious Circle' of Jailing the Poor? from Fresh Air, 11 May 2016
'Charged' Explains How Prosecutors And Plea Bargains Drive Mass Incarceration, from Fresh Air, 10 April 2019
Getting Out, from The New York Times - The Daily, 14 June 2020.
The Militarization Of Police, from Fresh Air, 1 July 2020.
Why The U.S. Prison System Makes Mental Illness Worse (And How We Might Fix It), from Fresh Air, 16 July 2020
ANY episode of Ear Hustle (each episode = 1 learning activity)
Season 2 of In the Dark about Curtis Flowers (each episode = 1 learning activity)
Out Of Prison But Still Trapped: Examining The 'Afterlife' Of Incarceration, from Fresh Air, 24 March 2021
To Understand Police Reform, Law Professor Volunteered To Join The Force, from Fresh Air, 16 February 2021
Documentary Asks: Do 'Women In Blue' Police Differently Than Male Officers? from Fresh Air, 8 February 2021
"Policing in America," from Throughline, 8 April 2021
"Reframing History: Mass Incarceration," from Throughline, 3 September 2020
The series "The Line," a podcast about the fuzzy rules in combat situations (each full episode = 1 learning activity)
"Finding the Courage for What's Redemptive," Bryan Stevenson on On Being, 3 December 2020

Movies

Life on Parole, from PBS Frontline, 18 July 2017 (free)
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality, available on HBOMax (subscription required)
Just Mercy, available from the ChattState Library with your TigerID/password (free)
Prison State, a documentary about what happens inside US prisons, streaming free at PBS Frontline

TV series / short videos (each episode = 1 learning activity)

Manhunt season 1 (about the Unabomber), from Netflix (subscription required; 8 episodes total)
The Khalief Browder Story, from Netflix (subscription required; 6 episodes total)
College Behind Bars, available from PBS (4 episodes total)
When They See Us, from Netflix (subscription required; 4 episodes total)
How Norway's Prisons are Different From America's (available on YouTube; free)
Bryan Stevenson's TED Talk: "We Need to Talk About an Injustice" (free)

Reading

"Understanding mass incarceration in the US is the first step to reducing a swollen prison population," by Jeffrey Bellin on TheConversation.com, 2 March 2023 -- added 3.2.2023
"Dead to Rights," by Elizabeth Bruenig, from The Atlantic, 14 August 2022.
"Can America Kill its Prisoners Kindly?" by Elizabeth Bruenig, from The Atlantic, 31 March 2022.
Ian Manuel's New York Times piece, "I Survived 18 Years in Solitary Confinement," 25 March 2021.
"They executed people for the state of South Carolina. For some, it nearly destroyed them." from The State (a local newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina), 5 November 2021.
"How the NRA worked to stifle gun violence research," article from NPR, 5 April 2018.
My Time Will Come, by Ian Manuel (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link
The Sun Does Shine (book) by Anthony Ray Hinton (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link
American Prison, by Shane Bauer (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link