She Owes Her Activism To A Brave Mom, The ADA And Chocolate Cake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvoj-ku8zk0 To Haben Girma's grandmother, back in East Africa, it "seemed like magic." Her granddaughter, born deaf and blind, is a graduate of Harvard Law School and...
View ArticleLawsuits Target 'Debtors' Prisons' Across the Country
Civil rights lawyers are using a new strategy to change a common court practice that they have long argued unfairly targets the poor. At issue is the way courts across the country sometimes issue...
View ArticleWhite House Gathers Lawmakers And Judges To Solve Steep Court Fees
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Court fines for a minor infraction, like a traffic ticket or jaywalking, can cost hundreds of dollars. For those who can't come up with the...
View ArticleDoubling Up Prisoners In 'Solitary' Creates Deadly Consequences
This seems like a contradiction: Put a dangerous prison inmate into solitary confinement, and then give him a cellmate. An investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project, a news organization that...
View ArticleColorado Springs Will Stop Jailing People Too Poor To Pay Court Fines
Debtors' prisons have long been illegal in the United States. But many courts across the country still send people to jail when they can't pay their court fines. Last year, the Justice Department...
View ArticleCourt Fines And Fees Almost Delay Homecoming For Wrongly Convicted Michigan Man
Davontae Sanford was only 14 years old when he was arrested for a string of murders in Michigan. But after almost nine years in prison, his conviction was overturned when a state investigation found...
View ArticleVideos Make Everyone A Witness To Police Shootings
It may seem like there are a lot more cases of people being shot and killed by police. Just this week, two African-American men were shot by police: Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando...
View ArticleInside Lewisburg Prison: A Choice Between A Violent Cellmate Or Shackles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjN0DaL2mxo On Feb. 3, 2011, corrections officers at the Lewisburg federal penitentiary in central Pennsylvania arrived outside Sebastian Richardson's cell door. With...
View ArticleFederal Report Criticizes Harsh Treatment Of Lewisburg Prisoners
A new federal report harshly criticizes the way the Bureau of Prisons treats inmates with mental illness, singling out treatment at the prison at Lewisburg, Pa. The report by the Department of...
View ArticleThe Sexual Assault Epidemic No One Talks About
Editor's note: This report includes graphic and disturbing descriptions of assault. Pauline wants to tell her story — about that night in the basement, about the boys and about the abuse she wanted to...
View ArticleNPR Investigation Finds Hidden Epidemic Of Sexual Assault
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We are about to bring you voices of people who've hardly been heard in the national conversation about sexual harassment and assault. They...
View ArticleFor Some With Intellectual Disabilities, Ending Abuse Starts With Sex Ed
Editor's note: This report includes graphic and disturbing descriptions of sexual assault. In the sex education class for adults with intellectual disabilities , the material is not watered down. The...
View Article'She Can't Tell Us What's Wrong'
Editor's note: This report includes graphic and disturbing descriptions of sexual assault. The victim couldn't tell anyone what happened that night. She was a woman with an intellectual disability who...
View ArticleHow Prosecutors Changed The Odds To Start Winning Some Of The Toughest Rape...
Editor's note: This report includes graphic and disturbing descriptions of sexual assault. There's a trial scheduled in March at the marble courthouse in Newark, N.J., of a man charged with kidnapping...
View ArticleIn Their Own Words: People With Intellectual Disabilities Talk About Rape
Editor's note: This report includes descriptions of sexual assault. Somebody with an intellectual disability by definition has difficulty learning, reasoning or problem-solving. But many often think...
View ArticleStates Aim To Halt Sexual Abuse Of People With Intellectual Disabilities
Earlier this year, NPR reported that people with intellectual disabilities are victims of some of the highest rates of sexual assault. NPR found previously undisclosed government numbers showing that...
View ArticleTeaching Parents Of Kids With Disabilities To Fight Back
Our Take A Number series is exploring problems around the world, and people solving them, through the lens of a single number. At a graduation ceremony in a hotel ballroom outside Minneapolis, 28 men...
View ArticleIn Prison, Discipline Comes Down Hardest On Women
When Monica Cosby, Tyteanna Williams and Celia Colon talk about the years they spent as inmates at women's prisons in Illinois, their stories often turn to the times they would be disciplined for what...
View ArticleIn Iowa, A Commitment To Make Prison Work Better For Women
The warden at the women's prison in Iowa recently instructed her corrections officers to stop giving out so many disciplinary tickets for minor violations of prison rules, like when a woman wears her...
View ArticleFor Many With Disabilities, 'Let It Go' Is An Anthem Of Acceptance
This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. Find more at NPR.org/Anthem . Disney's Frozen remains one of the greatest box-office...
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