Jaws of Justice Radio

Listen to a recording of this episode by hitting the Play link above. The downloadable Podcast will be posted by Monday Sept 30th. In The Executioner’s Shadow The new documentary In the Executioner’s Shadow casts a penetrating look at the consequences of the death penalty through three powerful stories – the rare perspective of a […]

Local Homelessness Advocate Troy Robinson Troy Robinson is homeless and has shown the community around 35th and Prospect that sometimes those with the least can make the biggest difference. Troy has been collecting clothes, food and more then sharing them with others in need. What Troy is really sharing is love thy neighbor as a […]

"Jail Bond Bills" are illegal In Missouri postponed The Help KC - There Is Hope For Life In And Out Of Prison... postponed It is very unusual when both of our guests are unable to be present for our broadcast. It is even more unsual if we don't find out until it is time to go on air. We will try to get them both on a future broadcast. That is why we were forced to quickly find something in our arc...

Ricky Kidd, Free At Last And Looking For Justice For Other Wrongfully Convicted Citizens This is the first picture EVER of my Boy with his Dad!! *Ricky Kidd and His Son Austin August 14 at 11:45 AM BREAKING: Circuit Court Judge Daren Adkins has issued an order finding Ricky Kidd is innocent and that the State withheld evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland. The Court has ordered that Ricky Kid...

Jenkins v City of Jennings In 2015 eight plaintiffs filed suit against the City of Jennings. The complaint alleged that impoverished city residents were jailed solely because of their inability to pay court fines and fees from traffic and other municipal violations. No meaningful inquiry was made of their ability to pay, and the City […]

Holding Amy McGowen, and all Prosecutors, Accountable With the release this week of another wrongfully convicted man we look at the issue of Prosecutorial Misconduct, in particular that of Amy McGowen former Jackson County Prosecutor who nows works in the Douglass County, KS Prosecutor’s office. Ms McGowan not only withheld evidence in the case of […]

Bobby Bostic Doesn’t Want Kids Making The Same Mistakes He Did Bobby Bostic is serving the longest sentence in Missouri given to a juvenile for non-homicide offenses. At 16 years old Bostic and his accomplice robbed a group of people delivering Christmas presents and shot two then later carjacked another woman. No one was seriously […]

Family United Transportation Services – Connecting Families With Their Incarcerated Loved Ones No one goes to prison alone, their family is affected in a variety of ways and staying connected with one’s family while incarcerated is one of the most important factors in reducing recidivism. Many poor families cannot afford to make the trip to […]

WYCO Behavioural Health Court The Wyandotte County Behavioural Health Court is a problem solving court that works to help defendants with a Felony conviction, that have a severe and persistent mental illness and have been placed on probation. They must have a diagnosis by Wyandotte Mental Healthcare and are referred to the court by prosecutors, defense attorneys, probation officers and even other...

A Replay - A Conversation with Nancy Leazer – How We Can Use Our Prisons As More Than Warehouses With the KCMO Jail being evicted from the Jackson County Jail we thought it was time to replay our 2015 interview with Nancy Leazer, the last Director of the old Kansas City Jail, The Farm, before they moved to the Jackson County jail. When the Municipal Correctional Institution was closed in 2009 and...

Why They Come and American Prisons in Honduras I recently heard someone in the coffeeshop ask “if their country is so great why do they want to come here?” My thought was, you answered your own question. Honduras, like other countries in Central America are not such great places to live today. The corruption, repression […]

An Hour With Jean Peters Baker, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker, the Jackson County Prosecutor has been in that role since 2011 and she’s distinguished herself by standing up strongly for victims in our community. She also has become known for taking on some high-profile cases, like the potential prosecution last year of Gov. […]

Cannabis, Hemp, and Injustice What is cannabis… is it pot, hemp… what?  Keith Washburn interviews Mark Buddemeyer, who is the owner and director of operations for KC GREENFIELDS, a local cannabis consulting company with over 25 years of experience in the legal cannabis industry. Our topics on Monday will include: The corrupt story of how […]

Who Was Angie Schroer and Why Did Indepence Police Say She Committed Suicide? Today’s broadcast is two parts of the story of Angie Schroer. In the first half host Jeff Humfeld talks to Angie’s Mother, Jackie Schroer about her daughter, as a child and on up to adulthood until she was killed, as well as […]

COUNT TIME! The Life and Times of Patricia Prewitt A solo performance by Elizabeth Ann Townsend – Awarded Best Production in the 2016 St. Lou Fringe Festival. (Note – today’s broadcast is of an edited version of the play to fit JoJR’s time constraints.) In the early morning hours of February 18, 1984, Patty Prewitt […]

Judy Henderson – Pardoned After 35 Years Judy Henderson and her boyfriend at the time Greg Cruzan were charged with the 1981 murder of a jewelry store owner in Springfield, MO. Henderson wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger yet she got 50 years and Cruzan got acquitted. Since 2004 three different Governors had denied […]

Legislative Wrap Up With KS Representative J Russell Jennings And MO Representative Judy Morgan Host Teresa Wilke will talk with KS State Representative J Russell Jennings and Host Jeff Humfeld talks with MO State Representative Judy Morgan about the good and bad bills that passed and didn’t pass in their respective 2019 Legislative sessions. Kansas […]

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Today we begin with excerpts of From The Vault #0459 – a quick montage of recordings that Pacifica Radio Recorded of Angela Davis from 1969 to The Wall Street Occupy Movement in 2011, then a longer recording of a February …

Today we begin with excerpts of From The Vault #0459 – a quick montage of recordings that Pacifica Radio Recorded of Angela Davis from 1969 to The Wall Street Occupy Movement in 2011, then a longer recording of a February 23, 2015 conversation between Professor Angela Davis and the University of Southern California’s Dr. Michele […]

Reentry Is Hard For Exonerees Too As more and more wrongfully convicted citizens are exonerated the issue of compensation has come to the fore. In Missouri only those exonerated by DNA are eligible for compensation and it isn’t automatic. Kansas …

Reentry Is Hard For Exonerees Too As more and more wrongfully convicted citizens are exonerated the issue of compensation has come to the fore. In Missouri only those exonerated by DNA are eligible for compensation and it isn’t automatic. Kansas recently passed a compensation law for exonerees that is still being figured out. The problem […]

Brian Daldorph, Mentoring Prison Poets We replay an interview from June of 2018 Brian Daldorph has been involved with prison poetry programs at the Lawrence Jail and the Kansas Penitentiary at Lansing, KS. He is the Editor/Poetry Editor of Coal …

Brian Daldorph, Mentoring Prison Poets We replay an interview from June of 2018 Brian Daldorph has been involved with prison poetry programs at the Lawrence Jail and the Kansas Penitentiary at Lansing, KS. He is the Editor/Poetry Editor of Coal City Review, an Independent Literary Review published annually by the Coal City Review Press. The […]

Mental Illness Behind Bars Since the 1980’s when funding for community mental health centers was cut drastically the number of people in prison because of mental illness has risen steadily. Wardens and Corrections officials from state and local prisons and …