![Image of Chicago Police officer](https://theappeal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/GettyImages-1063608438-1200x800.jpg)
Media Frame: Using Gun Fears to Demagogue Bail Reform
CBS 2 Chicago relied on police voices and irrelevant data to question efforts to end cash bail.
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The Appeal Podcast: What’s Changed Since The 2018 Prison Strike?
With Jailhouse Lawyers Speak spokesperson and Right 2 Vote national coordinator Amani Sawari
![Baltimore's Inner Harbor at night](https://theappeal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/shutterstock_340412744-1200x800.jpg)
Media Frame: Stoking Panic Over ‘Flood’ of ‘Juveniles’ in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
The sensationalist coverage of a handful of fights highlights local media’s misplaced priorities.
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The Appeal Podcast: American Cities’ Growing Reliance on Surveillance
With Appeal contributor Mike Hayes
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The Appeal Podcast: Criminal Justice Reform Hits Roadblock in Arizona
With Caroline Isaacs of the American Friends Service Committee
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The Appeal Podcast: Reframing The Bronx 120 Raid
With City University of New York law professor Babe Howell
![Woman's hands through bars](https://theappeal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/5625211494_33854d9e73_b-1.jpg)
The Appeal Podcast: Generational Harm, A Hidden Cost of Mass Incarceration
With Chicago activist Celia Colón
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The Appeal Podcast: NYPD-SVU’s Low Clearance Rate for Sexual Assault
With Appeal contributor Meg O’Connor
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The Appeal Podcast: Policing Public Health
With Leo Beletsky, Appeal contributor and Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University.
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The Appeal Podcast: The Baltimore Police Department’s Troubled Homicide Unit
With Appeal contributor Amelia McDonell-Parry
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The Appeal Podcast: The Long, Troubled History of Gravity Knife Prosecution
With Appeal contributor Jon Campbell
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The Appeal Podcast: The Risks of Risk Assessment
With Hannah Sassaman and Matt Henry
![Photo of a Black Lives Matter protest. One activist holds a giant poster featuring Stephon Clark.](https://theappeal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ClarkGettyImages-942054746.jpg)
The Appeal Podcast: Pushing For Police Accountability in Sacramento
With Appeal senior staff reporter Aaron Morrison
![A person registering to vote](https://theappeal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/VotingGettyImages-1091394490.jpg)
The Appeal Podcast: The Backlash Against Expanding Voting Rights
With Appeal staff reporter Kira Lerner
![Photo of Jackson, MS Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba](https://theappeal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Jackson_MS2-1200x800.jpg)
The Appeal Podcast: Mayor of Jackson Faces Uphill Battle for Police Accountability
With Appeal contributor Ko Bragg
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The Appeal Podcast: Prisoners With Disabilities Fight for Equal Rights
With Appeal contributor Keri Blakinger
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The Appeal Podcast: How Police Unions Are Fighting California’s New Transparency Law
With Appeal contributor Darwin BondGraham
![Image of Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard](https://theappeal.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Erie_County_Sheriff-1200x800.jpg)
The Appeal Podcast: A Pattern of Jail Deaths in Western New York—and Across the Country
With Appeal contributor Raina Lipsitz
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The Appeal Podcast: Debunking the Stories About Federal Prisoners Dining on Steak
With Craig Cesal and Amy Ralston Povah
![Steven Wayne Young (left) recounts his Oct. 24 arrest by officers in the Baton Rouge Police Department. Randy Brown witnessed and filmed the incident.](https://theappeal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Steven-Brown-IMG_7595-1200x800.jpg)
The Appeal Podcast: Brutality in Baton Rouge
With Appeal contributors Clarissa Sosin and Daryl Khan.
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The Appeal Podcast: How Local Governments are Pushing Back Against ICE
With Appeal senior reporter Debbie Nathan.
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The Appeal Podcast: Black Lives Matter and Racism in the Criminal System
With Angela J. Davis, Appeal contributor and professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law.
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The Appeal Podcast: The Pseudoscience behind Forensic Science
With Jessica Brand, Legal Director at The Justice Collaborative and Appeal contributor.
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The Appeal Podcast: Real Reform vs. Faux Reform
With Appeal senior staff reporter, and co-host of the Justice in America podcast, Josie Duffy Rice.
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The Appeal Podcast: Criminalizing Trans Lives
With Appeal writer Aviva Stahl and trans rights activist Ceyenne Doroshow.
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The Appeal Podcast: Neglect and Abuse in Our Prison Healthcare System
With Mercedes Montagnes of the Promise of Justice Initiative.
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The Appeal Podcast: Prison Strikes Are the Front Line Against Mass Incarceration
With Appeal staff reporter Raven Rakia.
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The Appeal Podcast: How Activists Brought Down the Most Powerful Man in Chicago
With writer Kelly Hayes.
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The Appeal Podcast: The Cruelty of Felony Murder Laws
With Appeal contributor Katie Rose Quandt.
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The Appeal Podcast: Why Police Accountability is as Elusive as Ever
With Appeal staff reporter George Joseph.
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The Appeal Podcast: On the Ground in Dallas’s High Stakes D.A. Race
With Dominique Walker of the ACLU, Reverend Edwin Robinson of Faith in Texas, and Joe Estelle of Texas Organizing Project.
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The Appeal Podcast Episode 14: The Prison-to-School Pipeline
With activist and scholar Danny Murillo.
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The Appeal Podcast Episode 12: When Electronic Cages Replace Steel and Cement
With journalist Kira Lerner.
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The Appeal Podcast Episode 11: Prosecutors Team Up With Walmart to Crack Down on Petty Crime
With journalist Jessica Pishko.
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The Appeal Podcast Episode 10: Racism and Corruption in Child Protection Courts
With journalist Roxanna Asgarian.
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The Appeal Podcast Episode 9: The History––and Promise––of the Bail Abolition Movement
With journalist Bryce Covert.
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The Appeal Podcast Episode 8: The Racist Zeal of ‘Zero Tolerance’ and Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Escalation
With Appeal reporter Max Rivlin-Nadler.
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The Appeal Podcast Episode 7: What Abolitionists Mean When They Talk About Abolition
With William C. Anderson, journalist and co-author of As Black As Resistance.