Jaws of Justice Radio

Jaws of Justice Radio Hour will feature hosts Keith Brown El and Ed Pennington talking with Hedy Harden, the chairperson of Missouri Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) and Maria Miller, also a CURE member, both from St Louis.   CURE is an all-volunteer non-profit criminal justice advocacy organization.  As a prisoners’ rights organization, […]

Jaws of Justice Radio Hour will have a live interview of Sheryl Ferguson speaking on the recent protests in Kansas City prompted by the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minnesota.  Listeners know this is not Sheryl Ferguson’s first time on Jaws of Justice.  She spoke with us earlier this […]

“A Pandemic Pivot: From Warfare to Human Care” will be the focus of PeaceWork Kansas City’s ninth annual peace witness on Memorial Day, May 25. The tradition has focused public attention on actual and potential deaths from nuclear weapons production—the 65-year toxic legacy of the old Bannister Federal Complex impacting employees and nearby residents, and […]

Host Elisa Breitenbach speaks with Kim Hart, the Director of The National Child Abuse Defense & Resource Center (NCADRC), a non-profit organization of volunteers dedicated to preserving the rights of those falsely accused of child abuse through education. https://falseallegation.org/ Protecting children from harm is an important and noble goal, however the current method used to […]

Three People Working For Justice: Dr Karen Curls, Lora McDonald and Attorney Shawn O’Brien We start tonights show with host Infinity Foster talking with Dr Karen Curls about her efforts to establish the Alvin Brooks institute at Penn Valley Community College. She is building the institute to study crime and its causes as well as […]

Prisoner Testimonials – Panel on Prison Violence This edition of Jaws of Justice Radio features a panel of five formerly incarcerated citizens with a range of 28 years to 4 months behind bars. They will discuss violence in both men’s and women’s institutions. These folks are working through their own difficulties with reintegration but are […]

The Midwest Innocence Project With Exoneree Darryl Burton The inaugural broadcast of Jaws of Justice Radio is hosted by Harriett Khuene and Gabi Otto. They spent the hour with Jay Swearingen Director of the Midwest Innocence Project and Darryl Burton recently exonerated from the Missouri Department of Corrections for a crime he did not commit.

Our Jaws of Justice Radio Hour will have a live interview of Fred Slough by host David Bell.  Fred began his legal career as a criminal defense attorney who wanted to try cases to juries. This experience has proven invaluable to him and his clients. He is highly respected among judges, clients, and attorneys alike. […]

Jaws of Justice Radio Hour will begin with Teresa Wilke talking with Cooper Overstreet, a criminal defense attorney with The Swain Law Office.  Cooper Overstreet is a Democratic candidate for the District Attorney in Douglas County, KS.  He is going to talk with us about mass incarceration, lack of transparency and unfair treatment of minorities […]

Our Jaws of Justice Radio Hour will have a live interview of Curtis Scott Hansen and his attorney, Matt Radefeld, by host Elisa Breitenbach.    Curtis Scott Hansen was a teenager when he was indicted in 1989 of the sexual abuse of his three nephews, aged 8, 9 and 10; children who were subsequently placed in […]

Our Jaws of Justice Radio Hour for April 27 will begin with a live interview of Lauren Bonds by host Craig Lubow.  Lauren is the Legal Director of the ACLU of Kansas.  She will be talking about the lawsuit the Kansas ACLU filed in early April 2020 that asks the Court to compel the State […]

Our Jaws of Justice Radio Hour for April 20 will feature a live interview of Sheryl Ferguson by host Patricia Bartholome. On December 3, 2019, Kansas City police shot and killed 26-year-old Cameron Lamb, a black male, in his own backyard. Sheryl Ferguson knew Cameron Lamb and his family for years. She’s familiar with the […]

Mumia Abu- Jamal – World’s Best-Known Death Row Inmate Our show will air news of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a political activist and journalist. He has been involved with the Black Panther Party and he supported the MOVE Organization in Philadelphia. He covered the 1978 confrontation in which one police officer was killed. Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted […]

Jaws of Justice programmer Keith Brown El will have a talk with Clifford Miller, an inmate at Western Missouri Correctional Center.  Clifford believes he is innocent of the charges that hold him in prison, and he will speak on his experience with the criminal “justice” system. Jaws of Justice Radio Hour will have a re-play […]

We have vulnerable populations because our social caste system exploits people of color and women of all colors.  Jaws of Justice will feature an interview with two leaders of the More²  Criminal Justice Task Force of Kansas City Kansas – David Grummon, Attorney and Khadijah Hardaway, a community leader. Both are working on all the […]

Secret courts… Freezing courtrooms… Video judges… sounds like the plot to a bad movie set in a third world country. Would it surprise you to know this is happening in the United States of America? In the year 2020? Host David Bell is joined by attorney Rekha Sharma-Crawford and they take a look inside the […]

Jaws of Justice programmer Elisa Breitenbach speaks to Major Greg Volker Commander of the Kansas City Police Department Violent Crimes Division, Ann Murphy from Youth RISE and Jennifer Heinemann from Operation Breakthrough.  The show will be a discussion about the murder problem we are facing in Kansas City. As a community we must find ways […]

In 2012, St. Louis voters chose to eliminate the state review board appointed by the Missouri Governor to oversee their police department and moved control of the police directly to the city.  The system used for Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) governance is a Missouri Governor-appointed Board of Police Commissioners, too.  Kansas City is still […]

A group of prisoners at the South-Central Correctional Center in Licking MO have started a program called Resistance Against Prison Pipelines, also known as RAPP.  On 2/17, Jaws of Justice Radio aired recorded interviews with two of them, Ozzie Collins and Derrick Peace.  On February 24th, we will play Keith Brown El’s interview with the […]

A group of prisoners at the South-Central Correctional Center in Licking MO have started a program called Resistance Against Prison Pipelines, also known as RAPP.  On 2/17, host Keith Brown El will air his recorded interview with two of them, Ozzie Collins and Derrick Peace.  They are all three interested in reducing high incarceration rates, […]

On Monday, 2/10, at 9 AM, host Elisa Breitenbach is back for a discussion with Teresa Woody, Litigation Director, and Christina Ostmeyer, Communications and Digital Advocacy Director of Kansas Appleseed.  Kansas Appleseed is a nonprofit network of 17 Centers across the U.S. and Mexico, dedicated to advancing justice and opportunities that help low-income people and […]

For the first part of the hour, we will replay from our 1/6/20 show.  Host Keith Brown El talks with Edward Pennington, Jeffery Scott and Willie Copeland, three men who were recently released from prison.  They’ll talk about their prison experiences and discuss the transition back into society. On the second part of Jaws of […]

On today’s show, Host Latahra Smith interviews Keith Carnes, an inmate in Missouri who says he did not commit the crime for which he is serving time.   Latahra has studied Carnes’ case, read transcripts of depositions and trial testimony, interviewed experts and sought out witnesses in Kansas City’s toughest neighborhoods. Smith believes that Carnes is […]

James Shelby, aka Qadhafi, has been incarcerated in Missouri for over 22 years. While inside, Qadhafi was active with the NAACP prison branches and he helped to found the Missouri chapter of IWW’s Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC). Since his release five months ago, Qadhafi has continued to be a leader in the struggle. He […]

Host Teresa Wilke will talk with Victoria Ferguson about the social action group she has organized, Justice 4 Inmate’s.  Their goal is to hopefully bring change, reform and accountability with respect to issues caused by the housing of inmates in the state of Missouri.  They are a voluntary and open group.  On January 23th, they […]