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06.12.
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Episode 295: The Sale (12.06.2024)
In 1791, three men filed lawsuits in the General Court of Maryland. They were all suing the same person: the Jesuit priest who enslaved them.
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22.11.
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Criminal
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Episode 294: For the Sake of American Youth (11.22.2024)
“Children nowadays, they make maps. And say, this is the street where the store is that we're going to rob, and this is where we're going to hide, and this is how we get away.”
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15.11.
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Criminal
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Episode 293: Extraordinary and Compelling Reasons (11.15.2024)
Gary Settle estimates he’s helped more than 40 inmates get out of prison using compassionate release. He still has over 100 years of his own sentence left to serve.
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08.11.
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Criminal
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Episode 292: The Reverend (11.8.2024)
In 1977, a man named Robert Burns went to a funeral and shot someone, in the head, in front of 300 people. He didn’t deny it, and his lawyer didn’t deny it. Burns told a police officer: “I had to do it. And if I had to do it over, I’d do it again.”
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01.11.
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Criminal
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Episode 291: The Family Land, Part 2 (11.1.2024)
This week, part two of the Reels family story – how two brothers went to jail for eight years in an attempt to save their family land.
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25.10.
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Criminal
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Episode 290: The Family Land, Part 1 (10.25.2024)
Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels refused the leave the land that had been in their family for generations – so they were sent to jail. They expected to be in jail for 90 days. They were there for 8 years.
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18.10.
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Criminal
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Episode 289: Valentine (10.18.2024)
Today, a personal story from Phoebe about her mother, Valentine, who died this spring.
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11.10.
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Criminal
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Episode 288: Under the Wall (10.11.2024)
Soon after the Berlin Wall went up, a group of students knocked on Joachim Rudolph’s door. They told him they were trying to get people out of East Germany - and they wanted his help.
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04.10.
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Criminal
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Episode 287: A Land Without Law (10.4.2024)
Before Guantánamo Bay became the prison we know today, Marie Genard spent more than a year of her life there. She was 14.
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27.09.
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Episode 286: The Mirage (9.27.2024)
In 1977, a new bar opened on North Wells Street in Chicago. Things weren’t as they seemed at the aptly named “Mirage Tavern.”