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Navigating The Criminal Justice System With DR JRenee Most citizens and their families have no idea what they can do to help their a loved one that has been arrested or charged with a crime. What is an arraignment? Should I bail them out? How should they conduct themselves in jail and court? These are questions many of us don't think about until something bad happens. Advocating for someone in cus...

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JUST A REMINDER JAWS OF JUSTICE RADIO WILL START AT ABOUT 9:20 AM THIS WEEK BECAUSE OF THE PLEDGE DRIVE, PLEASE CALL IN DURING THE SHOW AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR JAWS OF JUSTICE RADIO AND KKFI AT 888-931-0901 OR ONLINE https://kkfi.org/ Private Corrections Institute, Stopping Private Prisons In Their Tracks - A Conversation With Frank Smith The Private Corrections Institute has been fighting the p...

A Peek At 2016 MO Legislative Session With Representative Brandon Ellington Last year the Missouri House started the session out by cutting the number of weeks unemployed workers could draw unemployment benefits. The 2016 Legislature started out with a Voter …

A Peek At 2016 MO Legislative Session With Representative Brandon Ellington Last year the Missouri House started the session out by cutting the number of weeks unemployed workers could draw unemployment benefits. The 2016 Legislature started out with a Voter ID Bill that may have the effect of suppressing the number of eligible voters for our next election this fall. Today we take a look at what e...

One Struggle KC And MORE2, We Do Not Accept 47 Police Killings in Ten Years The Kansas City Star recently published a report that the KCMO Police Department had killed 47 civilians in the last 10 years and another 56 …

One Struggle KC And MORE2, We Do Not Accept 47 Police Killings in Ten Years The Kansas City Star recently published a report that the KCMO Police Department had killed 47 civilians in the last 10 years and another 56 have been shot and survived. That makes KCPD one of the deadliest departments in the nation per population and in 2015 KCMO was one of only a handful of cities where all of the victim...

The 2015 Supreme Court Session In Review – A Local Legal Panel Looks Back From Lethal Injections, Same Sex Marriage, Redistricting to Religious freedoms and much more, the US Supreme Court had a very busy session last year. Our panel …

The 2015 Supreme Court Session In Review - A Local Legal Panel Looks Back From Lethal Injections, Same Sex Marriage, Redistricting to Religious freedoms and much more, the US Supreme Court had a very busy session last year. Our panel of lawyers look back at the hot button issues and some of the more obscure rulings as well. Tune in and find out how your world was changed. The New York Times has a...

Jaws of Justice Radio interviewed Max Parthas a few months ago, today we replay that interview because it is important that we as a nation understand what is being done in our name. 13th Amendment to the US Constitution Neither …

Jaws of Justice Radio interviewed Max Parthas a few months ago, today we replay that interview because it is important that we as a nation understand what is being done in our name. 13th Amendment to the US Constitution Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place sub...

The Missouri Supreme Court Overturned The Murder Conviction Of Reggie Clemmons – Why And What Happens Now? It had been twenty-two years, seven months, twenty-two days and countless hours since Reggie Clemons was sentenced to death until, on November 24, …

Sister Helen Prejean – Why She Opposes The Death Penalty Sister Helen Prejean is well known for her book Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States and the movie of the same name. …

Sister Helen Prejean – Why She Opposes The Death Penalty Sister Helen Prejean is well known for her book Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in […] The post Sister Helen Prejean – Why She Opposes The Death Penalty and The Invisible Victims on Execution Day appeared first on KKFI .

The Missouri Supreme Court Overturned The Murder Conviction Of Reggie Clemmons - Why And What Happens Now? It had been twenty-two years, seven months, twenty-two days and countless hours since Reggie Clemons was sentenced to death until, on November 24, 2015, the Missouri Supreme Court threw out not only his sentence but also his murder conviction in its entirety. They sent the case back to the st...

RISK FACTORS THAT LEAD TO GUN VIOLENCE Does hunger lead to the kind of desperate situations where violence seems the only solution? Does the machismo male image prevent some men to refuse to back down in a confrontation or even …

RISK FACTORS THAT LEAD TO GUN VIOLENCE Does hunger lead to the kind of desperate situations where violence seems the only solution? Does the machismo male image prevent some men […] The post Dr Jean McCabe – Risk Factors That Lead To Gun Violence and StopGap Inc – Helping Young People Aging Out Of Foster Care appeared first on KKFI .

Diane Rust-Tierney of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty As 2015 comes to a close we again look at the Death Penalty, the disparities in how it is applied, the cost to states and municipalities, the misconceptions of …

Diane Rust-Tierney of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty As 2015 comes to a close we again look at the Death Penalty, the disparities in how it is […] The post Diane Rust-Tierney of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and Revisiting Shelley Metje of Cory's Network appeared first on KKFI .

A Conversation with Nancy Leazer – How We Can Use Our Prisons As More Than Warehouses When the Municipal Correctional Institution was closed in 2009 and all the inmates moved to the county jail, a lot more than the jobs …

A Conversation with Nancy Leazer - How We Can Use Our Prisons As More Than Warehouses When the Municipal Correctional Institution was closed in 2009 and all the inmates moved to the county jail, a lot more than the jobs of the employees were lost. The leadership and staff of MCI brought in local not for profits to provide services that the city could not afford to addressed the mental health, drug...

Jaws of Justice Radio replays two of our most informative interviews about the pitfalls of our credit economic system just in time for the holiday shopping season. Zombie Debt Can Destroy Christmas Future And The Rest Of Your Year Too …

Jaws of Justice Radio replays two of our most informative interviews about the pitfalls of our credit economic system just in time for the holiday shopping season. Zombie Debt Can Destroy Christmas Future And The Rest Of Your Year Too Want to know what Zombie Debt is? If your credit card is stolen is it really true you won’t have to pay for those fraudulent charges? Who is behind these collection...

On this edition of Jaws of Justice Radio host Keith Brown El will interview Latahra Smith of The Freedom Project in regard to Police Misconduct.  They will be discussing what is police misconduct and what can be done about it …

On this edition of Jaws of Justice Radio host Keith Brown El will interview Latahra Smith of The Freedom Project in regard to Police Misconduct.  They will be discussing what […] The post Keith Brown El Talks with Latahra Smith of KC Freedom Project About How To Hold Police Accountable For Misconduct appeared first on KKFI .