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Personal Stories and Your Calls About DFS, Foster Care and The Courts We have personal accounts from couple of Fathers telling their stories of losing their children, not to the […] The post A Call In Show – Who Gets Custody, Mom, Dad Or The State? Two Dads Tell Their Story. appeared first on KKFI .

Tracy McClard on FORJ About two years ago Jaws of Justice Radio spoke with Tracy McClard about her son who at 17 was sentenced to 30 years as an adult. He committed suicide after being sent to an adult prison and being assaulted other prisoners. Tracy and her husband are spearheading an effort in Missouri called Family and Friends Organizing For Reform of Juvenile Justice (FORJ). Tracy explains to...

Eleos Coffeehouse and Bessie's House How do you help people in need without government money or institutional assistance? Can you and your church or organization start a day center for the homeless or feed the hungry? On tody's edition of Jaws of Justice Radio host Keith Brown El talks with Dan Smith of Eleos Ministries and Mike Lowe of Bessie house about how their groups help the homeless in NE K...

Legislative Update The Missouri Legislative session has about 5 weeks to go and the debates and haggling are in full swing. There are lobbyist and advocacy groups buttonholing legislators all over the Capitol and of course school children from various parts of the state learning how government works. Last week a the Missouri Association for Social Welfare (MASW), Kansas City Criminal Justice Task...

Byron Case - The Campaign To Restor An Innocent Man's Life On today's show Host Melvin Merritt examines the case of Byron Case whose conviction rests solely on the testimony of a jilted girlfriend. There is no evidence that ties Byron to this case that the police felt was a murder/suicide for nine months until Byron's former girlfriend provided the testimony to allow them to close an open case. Me...

Dean Becker of the Drug Truth Network If you are a regular listener to Jaws of Justice Radio AND you listen all the way to the end you will hear the 420 Drug War News. This edition features Dean Becker who produces those short reports and numerous other radio productions about the War on Drugs and how it has failed our society, what role it plays in the prison Industrial complex and alternatives....

Hope Faith Ministries On this edition of Jaws of Justice Radio new host Erik Faulkner is joined by Melvin Merritt to talk to Carla Brewer, Client Services Director for Hope Faith Ministries. Carla tells us about the services HFM provides to the homeless, 7 days a week at their facility at 7th (Admiral) and Virginia in KCMO. Contact Information Hope Faith Ministries 705 Virginia Avenue Kansas City,...

Should a sentence to prison mean your forfeit your right to healthcare? Do we have a responsibility to treat not just mental illness or addiction of our incarcerated? More importantly as the prison population ages what is our responsibility towards those with chronic diseases like diabetes or high blood pressure and communicable diseases such as hepatitis and tuberculosis. On this edition of Jaws...

Keith Brown El - What Doesn't Kill You...... Last September, Jaws of Justice Radio volunteer, Keith Brown El was asked to speak at the Missouri CURE state convention. Keith arrived at the gates of the Missouri Penitentiary with a 15 year sentence for a robbery and ended up spending years behind bars. We play his speech titled "What Doesn't Kill You Is Supposed To Make You Stronger" about how he su...

Puppies On Parole with George Lombardi Host Jessica Thomas talks with George Lombardi, Director of the Department of Corrections for Missouri about the Puppies On Parole program he has instituted across the correctional institutions in Missouri. This program has been developed as a way of saving dogs that would otherwise be euthenized and training them to be loving pets and service dogs for those...

Dr. Christi Griffin "From the time of the Emancipation Proclamation... incarcerations are about one singular goal, increasing the wealth of the wealthy. Until the narrative is changed and the truth becomes the conversation, everyone is simply spinning wheels" - Dr. Christi Griffin. On todays show host Jeff Humfeld talks with Dr. Christi Griffin, Founder and President of The Ethics Project in St. L...

MO State Representative Brandon Ellington 22nd District Representative Brandon Ellington comes in to tell us about the 2014 Legislative session, the bills he is sponsoring and supporting as well what you can do to get involved with the legislative process. Host Keith Brown El talks with Brandon about bills that would change how eyewittness identifications are conducted, a one time expungement of n...

THE MILITARIZATION OF LOCAL POLICE FORCES In the first half of our show Attorney Robin Martinez hosts a discussion with KC-area criminal defense attorney and former Wyandotte County prosecutor Brian Leininger about the militarization of our police forces and the increasing use of SWAT teams and paramilitary tactics by police for what should be mundane law enforcement matters. During the Clinton Ad...

NOTE: SO AS TO BRING YOU ALL OF DEMOCRACY NOW, JAWS OF JUSTICE RADIO WILL START AT ABOUT 9:20 AM. Gloria Nepote, CCDP, LAC, BRI II is the Clinical Liaison at Keystone Treatment Center and is well known in the recovery community in the Kansas City Area. Today Gloria will talk with Liz Henry and Cassandra Mitchell about Faces and Voices an effort to encourage recovering addicts to tell their story o...

COINTELPRO With Lewis Diuguid Wikipiedia describes - COINTELPRO (an acronym for COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.[2] National Security Agency operation Project MINARET targeted the pe...

By Any Means Necessary: Execution Missouri Style St Louis Public Radio and the Beacon recently released a report that the combining pharmacy that is supplying the drugs for executions in Missouri does not have a license to sell drugs here. That is in violation of Missouri statutes and carries a felony penalty. Is this why the Department of Corrections tried to hide the source of the drugs with bur...

This edition of Jaws of Justice Radio introduces two new volunteers Cassandra Mitchell and Liz Henry. Cassandra and Liz are active in the alcohol and drug recovery community and want to help get information out and get the voice of those that are recovering into the public debate. On this edition of Jaws of Justice Radio Cassandra and Liz bring in a guest from Faces and Voices of Recovery, a progr...

We start the New Year out with a rebroadcast of a show we did exactly 3 years ago on January 6, 2011. Attorney David Bell wanted to know what happened to his clients that were convicted. Co-host Macy Jones got Alvin Kirksey-Bey and Sunshine (Ardith) Smith to come in and tell their experiences of going to prison, waiting in County Jail and more. This show was a call-in show, but since it is a recod...

There has been a great deal that has happened this year from Government Spying to resumption of Executions in MO to Court decisions on transfer of students out of unaccredited […] The post Year End Legal Review With a Panel of Local Lawyers and Your Calls appeared first on KKFI .

Photo – www.dosomething.org Three Safe Havens For Women and Children In Distress This season is not one of joy and peace for everyone. On this edition of Jaws of Justice […] The post Three Safe Havens For Women and Children In Distress and MOCSA – The Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault appeared first on KKFI .

This past Summer Jaws of Justice aired two programs dealing with the effects of alcohol on individuals and our community. Host Keith Brown El returns with Dr Subbu Sarma with […] The post Alcohol Part III – A Pschiatrist’s Look at Alcohol Use And Abuse and A Personal Story of Alcohol Addiction and Rehabilitation appeared first on KKFI .

The Sentencing Project Host Margot Patterson talks with Marc Mauer, Executive Director of The Sentencing Project and author of Race to Incarcerate, a groundbreaking book on how sentencing policies led […] The post The Sentencing Project Works For Fairness and Christmas In Prison Reprise appeared first on KKFI .

Today host Jessica Thomas talks with Activist Amber Langston of Show Me Cannabis about their efforts to change marijuana laws in the state of Missouri and the recent conference by the Alvin Brooks Institute at Penn Valley Community College titled Marijuana: A Hook Down A Wrong Road – an honest discussion of marijuana and its implications on employment, scholarships, housing and going to jail. Find...

Survival 2013 – Richard Tripp Of COPP and Harvesters With Ellen Feldhausen Host Keith Brown El talks with Richard Tripp about Care of Poor People’s Survival 2013 event on Saturday […] The post Survival 2013 – Richard Tripp Of COPP and Harvesters With Ellen Feldhausen appeared first on KKFI .

We Can All Do Something to End Veteran Homelessness VA is committed to ending Veteran homelessness by the end of 2015. No one who has served our country should ever go without a safe, stable place to call home. The entire department has put its energy and resources into ending Veteran homelessness. VA's programs provide individualized, comprehensive care to Veterans who are homeless or at risk of...