Unprisoned: Stories From The System

12/12/2020

Eve will be interviewed by Michelle Martin on All Things Considered this evening. They'll be talking about Eve's award-winning podcast Unprisioned.

07/22/2020

It's the final episode of season 2 of Unprisoned! Airing on WWNO-FM in New Orleans at 8 PM today, July 22, or ANYtime when you subscribe to the podcast or listen .org .

07/15/2020

Don't miss episode #6 of Season 2 of Unprisoned. This moving story will get you thinking. Tune in at 8 pm to 89.9 FM / WWNO in New Orleans. Or subscribe to the podcast and hear it anytime! Or head on over to .org to stream the story.

07/09/2020

Don't miss this conversation on with Rachel Gassert from Louisiana Center for Children's Rights, Ava Rogers from , Meredith Angelson Innocence Project New Orleans , and Sarah Omojola. Today at 3:44 WWNO. Or subscribe to the podcast and stream any time! Thanks to New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation for hosting the live panel conversation.

07/08/2020

07/01/2020

The new season of Unprisioned starts today.

An all new season of Unprisoned begins airing this Wednesday at 3:44 PM on 89.9 FM / WWNO

06/29/2020

An all new season of Unprisoned begins airing this Wednesday at 3:44 PM on 89.9 FM / WWNO

10/19/2018

In Orleans Parish, District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro uses Louisiana's 3 strike Law like no other DA in the state. He's used it to lock up thousands of people- often for decades, often for nonviolent crimes.

Entitled "Ten Years or life", this story can be found on Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and is also going to air again on WWNO this coming Wednesday, October 24th at 1 PM.

https://player.fm/series/reveal/ep-10-years-or-life

Listen to 10 Years Or Life and 199 other episodes by Reveal. No signup or install required.

10/19/2018

Last week's episode of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting features Unprisoned Producer, Eve Abrams and her story on New Orleans' habitual offender law. Check it out here!

https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/10-years-or-life/

An accused man faces an impossible choice in New Orleans. Plus, a new district attorney in Philadelphia sets out to undo the work of those who came be

05/10/2018

Dominique Newton, a superhero Xavier University student, went on Oliver Thomas’ WBOK show with producer Eve Abrams yesterday morning. Both OT and Eve were in tears. Listen to Dominique’s story: it’s Episode 15 at https://www.unprisoned.org

05/07/2018

Louisiana locks up more of its citizens than any other place in the world.
In Unprisoned's second season, we tell you why.

Help us make a second season of award winning radio stories by getting yourself some Unprisoned swag. We have tote bags -- modeled here by Unprisoned producer Gianna Chachere -- and t-shirts.

Or give directly at Unprisoned.org, where you can also hear all our stories -- including the three newest from Season 1.5.

Thanks and love, team Unprisoned

03/16/2018

Thanks to all who came out to support and celebrate Unprisoned's second birthday at the beautiful home of Gianna Chachere and The New Quorum. We should all be concerned about the effects of mass incarceration in our state, which has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Please take time to visit the site and listen to some of the amazing stories and if you feel moved to chip in a few bucks, Eve Abrams, Katy Reckdahl and I can continue this important work. To visit and donate: https://www.unprisoned.org/

11/15/2017

Thank you to all who attended and listened to Unprisoned producer, Eve Abrams, give a TED Talk on mass incarceration, and the greater effects it has on the entire community. Learn more at www.Unprisoned.org

10/26/2017

On Wednesday, Unprisoned producer, Eve Abrams, will be giving a Ted Talk about how ending mass incarceration is everyone's responsibility. Can't make it? Hear voices from the talk at www.Unprisoned.org

10/11/2017

We are very excited to announce the launch of the new Unprisoned website!

Learn about Unprisoned, listen to all of the Peabody nominated stories, and support the work we do at www.unprisoned.org

09/26/2017

This week the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to consider the case, State v. Lambert, which takes on what many argue is a racist relic of Louisiana law: along with Oregon, ours is the only state which can convict defendants by non-unanimous jury verdicts.

But this isn't the only outlier in Louisiana law!

Up until last year, Louisiana was one of very few states that considered young people adults at age 17 in the eyes of the law.
Even though 17 year-olds can't legally drink or join the army, they could be tried as adults.
Listen to the Unprisoned story about the successful campaign to Raise the Age from 17 to 18 for when young people are legally considered adults in the criminal legal system.

Fingers crossed the Supremes help reverse yet another draconian Louisianaism: non-unanimous juries.

http://wwno.org/post/what-does-adult-mean-eyes-law-la-many-people-are-working-change-it-11

At all levels of government right now, laws about juveniles are rapidly changing. However, some states, including Louisiana, continue to prosecute and