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3:50
Damon Horowitz
Philosophy in prison
Posted
Nov 2011
5:07
Nalini Nadkarni
Life science in prison
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Jul 2010
5:00
Jeff Smith
Lessons in business ... from prison
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Dec 2012
8:48
Angela Patton
A father-daughter dance ... in prison
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Jan 2013
8:50
Peter Ouko
From death row to law graduate
Posted
Feb 2018
7:10
Nadia Lopez
Why open a school? To close a prison
Posted
Sep 2016
11:44
Alexander McLean
Restoring hope and dignity to the justice system
Posted
Nov 2014
6:34
Alex Rosenthal
The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1
Posted
Sep 2019
11:54
Ronald Sullivan
How I help free innocent people from prison
Posted
Aug 2017
9:36
The Lady Lifers
A moving song from women in prison for life
Posted
May 2015
16:04
Alice Goffman
How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison
Posted
May 2015
11:03
Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll
How I learned to read — and trade stocks — in prison
Posted
Apr 2017
15:28
Alan Crickmore
How storytelling helps parents in prison stay connected to their kids
Posted
Dec 2018
15:06
Marcus Bullock
An app that helps incarcerated people stay connected to their families
Posted
Oct 2019
11:23
Ismael Nazario
What I learned as a kid in jail
Posted
Mar 2015
12:00
Shaka Senghor
Why your worst deeds don’t define you
Posted
Jun 2014
12:51
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Why immigration prisons aren't the answer
Posted
Feb 2020
12:23
Teresa Njoroge
What I learned serving time for a crime I didn't commit
Posted
Nov 2017
8:38
John Legend
"Redemption Song"
Posted
Jul 2016
12:04
Jarrell Daniels
What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other
Posted
May 2019
15:19
Deanna Van Buren
What a world without prisons could look like
Posted
Mar 2018
18:30
Hany Farid
The dangers of algorithmic justice
Posted
Oct 2018
3:01
Daniel Finkel
Can you solve the jail break riddle?
Posted
Feb 2019
18:01
Jon Ronson
Strange answers to the psychopath test
Posted
Aug 2012
12:07
Laura Rovner
What happens to people in solitary confinement
Posted
Nov 2019
19:14
Elizabeth Pisani
Sex, drugs and HIV — let's get rational
Posted
Apr 2010
11:13
Ramona Pierson
An unexpected place of healing
Posted
Dec 2011
14:55
Will Potter
The secret US prisons you've never heard of before
Posted
Oct 2015
7:32
Marlon Peterson
Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform
Posted
May 2017
12:37
Cristina Domenech
Poetry that frees the soul
Posted
Jan 2015
5:41
Prosanta Chakrabarty
Four billion years of evolution in six minutes
Posted
Jun 2018
4:49
Prosanta Chakrabarty
Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish
Posted
Jun 2016
7:48
Rita Pierson
Every kid needs a champion
Posted
May 2013
12:25
Helen Pearson
Lessons from the longest study on human development
Posted
Oct 2017
6:21
Prosanta Chakrabarty
What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?
Posted
Jun 2020
10:32
Dan Pacholke
How prisons can help inmates live meaningful lives
Posted
Aug 2014
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