mass incarceration

First, the life and legacy of civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson. Then, the director of Calls From Home, a film documenting how a radio show connects inmates to family, joined Stateside to tell us about her work. Also, we learned more about the attempted lynching of Ossian Sweet, a Detroit doctor, and the self-defense trial which followed.

Today, we revisited an education program at the Lakeland Correctional Facility that trains people living on the inside in high-end culinary techniques. The program and its students are the subject of a new documentary film.

Happy last day of March! Today, we revisited an education program at the Lakeland Correctional Facility that trains people living on the inside in high-end culinary techniques. The program and its students are the subject of a new, heart wrenching, documentary film.

We checked on resettlement efforts for the hundreds of Afghan refugees in mid-Michigan. Then, a new podcast on a world after mass incarceration. And longtime photojournalist John Russell reflects on his career in Traverse City.