Douglas Collier is serving a life sentence inside San Quentin State Prison. For years he shared a 9x4 foot cell with his friend Tony, a fellow inmate. One day Tony couldn’t stop coughing. His arteries were clogged. Several months later, Tony died -- one of the hundreds of inmates who die in California state prisons each year.
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Sep 2018
139: Release Day [Rebroadcast] & Special Announcement
It's official, and it's one more amazing step into the future at Life of the Law: we have a new Executive Director. Six years after Nancy Mullane, Tom Hilbink and Shannon Heffernan launched the first episode of Life of the Law, with stories about jury nullification and jailhouse ... Show More
20m 8s
Oct 2024
90. The Ignored Murders of Chicago
In this case, Payton delves into the disappearance of Rosa Chacon, a woman who vanished after getting into a rideshare. As her family searches for answers, they are met with a devastating and shocking discovery that changes everything.
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35m 7s
Jun 2024
Richard E. Ocejo, "Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, it has been beset with poverty and crime after decades of decline, with few o ... Show More
1 h
Feb 2025
S4|E20: Breaking Into Prison | Part 1
A new, state of the art prison is nearing completion in downtown Nashville. But just as the prison is about to open, a set of keys goes missing. And they were taken for a reason. ***Gone South has been nominated for a Webby Award, but we need your VOTE! It takes 10 seconds, all y ... Show More
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