Unprisoned is a radio show and podcast that tells the stories behind the statistics: the ways our families, neighborhoods, and notions of justice are impacted by our criminal justice system.
How are we serving time outside?
From New Orleans, the world's incarceration capital, Unprisoned investigates the myths we hold about our criminal legal system.
Unprisoned is a podcast and radio show telling stories at the intersection of human lives and the criminal legal system. The show airs on WWNO, New Orleans Public Radio, and WBOK, New Orleans' home for news and talk from an African American perspective. Unprisoned is a 2017 Peabody Finalist and the recipient of a Gabriel Award and a New Orleans Press Club Award. Unprisoned was piloted through a national initiative of AIR, the Association of Independents in Radio. It’s second season is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
Unprisoned Lead Producer Eve Abrams is a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist as Activist Fellow. Check out her other work at eveabrams.com.
Unprisoned’s editors are Katy Reckdahl and Viki Merrick. Our theme music is by Greg Schatz. Photographs are by Cheryl Gerber. Illustrations for Season 2 are by Merle Cooper and Maria Hinds.
See the system from the perspectives of those who are forced to use it, from their families, allies and neighbors, and from those who feel the ripples of mass incarceration in their day-to-day lives.
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What are the myths we tell ourselves about our Criminal Legal System?
