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Veronica's Voice Has A Lot Going On Veronica's Voice has a lot going on creating a survivor-informed, realistic, and meaningful alternative to prostitution like Magdalene House where they provide women exiting 'the life' up to two years of affordable transitional housing, in a supportive, non-judgmental environment, Johnz School a restorative justice, diversion approach and the KC CASE Action Plan...

Mothers On Mentoring 2nd Annual Mother Daughter Expo The mission of Mothers On Mentoring is to strengthen mother/daughter relationships. Cultivate positive, strong successful women for the future. Equip girls on the path of destruction, with the proper tools they need to endure and overcome through the challenges of life. The develop programs to meet their vision of Building a sisterhood of all et...

The Movement To Elect Progressive Prosecutors In MO And Nationwide It has been said that the most powerful person in any courtroom is the not the Judge but rather the Prosecutor. This is because of the Prosecutor's ability to determine charges and force plea deals by overcharging suspects. This power in part stems from laws passed by legislators (many who are former prosecutors) who have been elec...

Alvin Sykes, SB 102 - Kansas Closed Case Task Force And More Alvin Sykes has been a voice in the wilderness calling out the inequities of our Justice System and working with legislators and numerous other citizens to propose and pass legislation to make the system more responsive to the needs of what is true justice. Alvin is largely self taught, when at an early age he forsook the education syste...

Barry Grissom Former US Attorney In Kansas Barry Grissom retired as US Attorney for the district of Kansas in 2016 and in April of 2018, he founded the Grissom Law Group which additionally focused on public policy advocacy. In 2018, he became general counsel and in charge of global affairs for Electrum Partners, LLC, a venture management company specializing in medical and adult legal use cannabis...

Angie Williams Immigration Attorney Host Craig Lubow talks with attorney Angie Williams. Her Practice is devoted exclusively to representing immigrants and their families in complex removal and family based immigration matters, federal criminal defense and defending and advising non-citizen criminal defendants and their attorneys on the immigration consequences of criminal activity. Attorney Angie...

Tremayne Guinn And Ricky Kidd - Using Poetry To Endure Wrongful Convictions Jaws of Justice Radio has committed to bringing forward cases of wrongful conviction each month in 2019. Some are the victims of mistaken identity, or faulty forensic evidence and many are victims of official misconduct. Not all of the wrongfully convicted are innocent, some were overcharged in an effort to get a plea and...

The East Hill Singers is a unique, internationally know prison chorus located at Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, KS.  Founded in 1995, the chorus has grown in size and prominence to include up to 50 inmate singers.  The unique aspect of the chorus is the addition of volunteer singers from the surrounding community who are also chorus members.  Normally, the chorus is comprised of about 5...

Legal Wrap Up of 2018 with David Bell and Robin Martinez Today on Jaws of Justice Radio local Attorneys David Bell and Robin Martinez give us their picks of the important legal decisions of 2018. Past wrap ups have focused on privacy rights, discrimination, policing, criminal law, environmental law, banking and more. Tune in to hear what happened in 2018 and what those decisions and laws might mea...

From Slave To Criminal In One Amendment - The 13th It’s a time of polarized attitudes about mass incarceration, brutality, and the explosion of for-profit prisons and their affiliates.  Today’s show explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.  A reading of one sentence in the 13...

Coming Home From Prison Ain't Easy - A Call In Show call in - 816-931-5534 This time of year families gather in celebration and reunite with those they do not get to see on a regular basis. It is often a bittersweet time for those who have loved ones that are incarcerated. For those who have been released from prison it is often a time of personal conflict as they gather with family and friends th...

Fredrick Martin - After Conviction: What You Can Do Before A Lawyer Is Appointed It has become apparent over the last 50 years that if you have money for a "Good" lawyer you will get acquitted and if you don't you will be convicted. What is it about a good lawyer that makes the difference? Are all the other lawyers "Bad" lawyers? What makes the good lawyer good? Frederick Martin -has written the b...

A Conversation With Wyandotte County Prosecutor Mark Dupree Sr. Mark A. Dupree, Sr., is the District Attorney of Wyandotte County, KS, the 4th largest county in the State of Kansas. Mr. Dupree leads an office of (60) employees and manages a significant budget each fiscal year. Mr. Dupree was sworn into office on January 9th, 2017. Mr Dupree’s focus is equitably charging and prosecuting crime, bein...

The Myths And Inequities Of The Bail Bond System, Bad Policy? Jaws of Justice Radio takes a look at the Bail Bond industry, the arguments used to support it, the unfair effects on the poor, the negative effects on the economy and local communities. Host Jamie Jackson starts out talking with Professor Peter Edelman, Carmack Waterhouse Professor Of Law And Public Policy at the Georgetown Law Center...

Can Court Watching Hold the Judiciary Accountable? What is the importance of court watching in order to assure trust and confidence in public proceedings?  The trial court is supposed to conduct its proceedings and other public business openly. The court must ensure that its proceedings are accessible and audible to all participants, including litigants, attorneys, court personnel, as well as memb...

The Dayroom Club by Patty Prewitt, Broadcast Premiere Of The Award Winning Play Prison Performing Arts, St. Louis Missouri, produced The Dayroom Club by Patty Prewitt as a radio podcast in 2018 from a workshop cast of inmates at the Women’s Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, MO, (WERDCC) whose stories inspired Ms. Prewitt’s original play. The production was directed by PPA’...

Sahj Kaya of Exonerate MA People Justice Initiative Inc. Exonerate MA People Justice Initiative is formulated to address the injustices and the inhumanness of the penal industrial complex, which allows for the existence of a “new Jim crow” 21st century slave trade supported by the 13th amendment that re install slavery through criminal conviction by man made racist and economic biased laws designe...

Loren Stanton, President of the NE Kansas Chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Today's subject is the Castle Doctrine (a legal doctrine that designates a person's abode or any legally occupied place, for example, a vehicle or home, as a place in which that person has protections and immunities permitting one, in certain circumstances, to use force, up to and including deadly force...

The Local And National Effort To Elect Progressive Prosecutors Host Keith Brown El discusses with Hedy Harden, Rashad Lartey and Jeff Francis, Community Activists, about local and national efforts to make voters aware of the need for progressive prosecutors in their communities. They will talk about local prosecutors' role in mass incarceration and efforts to educate and elect fair prosecutors. Ou...

The Viacrucis del Migrante, also known as the Central American migrant caravan, are annual migrant caravans of Central Americans organized by Pueblo Sin Fronteras. Viacrucis caravans have usually been organized since 2010 by the migrants themselves, who set off during Holy Week.  The Trump administration is responding with threats and rhetoric trying to get the Mexican government to stop them and...

JAWS OF JUSTICE RADIO WILL START AT ABOUT 9:10 AM TODAY Medical Marijuana On The Ballot In Missouri There are three ballot initiatives that would legalize medical marijuana for the November 6th election. Amendment 2 is sponsored by New Approach Missouri, Amendment 3 is sponsored by Find The Cure and Proposition C is sponsored by Missourians For Patient Care. All three gained their spot on the ball...

Medical Parole Denied to Inmates Crossroads remains in some state of lockdown after over four months.  Host Latahra Smith, organizer of Missouri Families for Inmate Rights, speaks with family members of James Bell and Michael Scott. They are inmates at the CROSSROADS CORRECTIONAL CENTER whose medical prognoses gives them each 3-6 months left to live.  Scott and Bell applied for medical parole but...

Mass Incarceration – How Did We Get Here? What Do We Do Now? Incarceration in the United States is one of the main forms of punishment and rehabilitation for the […] The post Mass Incarceration In Kansas and The Nation appeared first on KKFI .

MOCURE Conference - Families And Inmates Fighting For Their Human Rights America has more people per capita incarcerated, by a large margin, than any other nation on the planet. The land of the free is anything but, and the number of falsely convicted is only now starting to become apparent. Just as scandalous as the number incarcerated is Why they are incarcerated.....Profit is the motive. Wall S...

Adam Winkler On His New Book; We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won their Civil Rights Today we talk with Adam Winkler, professor of law at UCLA, about his new […] The post Adam Winkler On His New Book; We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won their Civil Rights appeared first on KKFI .