criminal justice

(Airs 10/23/26 & 10/25/26) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of The Daily Gazette and former Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Julie K Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Miami Herald who broke the Jeffrey Epstein story in South Florida. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, and Julie share listener letters and talk about Julie’s amazing work uncovering aspects of the Epstein story.

(Airs 10/23/26 & 10/25/26) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of The Daily Gazette and former Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Julie K Brown, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Miami Herald who broke the Jeffrey Epstein story in South Florida. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Judy, and Julie share listener letters and talk about Julie’s amazing work uncovering aspects of the Epstein story.

A new analysis finds racial and ethnic disparities in fatal police shootings vary significantly by state – and that New York has the lowest rate of fatal police encounters across all groups in the nation.

(Airs 08/28/25 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Chris Gelardi, Criminal Justice Investigative Reporter for New York Focus, about President Trump’s executive order threatening to withhold funding from states that offer cashless bail, state gang databases and how they’re used by ICE to identify people for deportation, problems with the state prison system, and much more.

Robin Steinberg and David Feige have spent much of their professional lives as public defenders in the Bronx, working in an unjust system, and its persistent flaws.

In "Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away with It," CNN senior legal analyst and nationally bestselling author Elie Honig explores America’s two-tier justice system, explaining how the rich, the famous, and the powerful— including, most notoriously, Donald Trump—manipulate the legal system to escape justice and get away with vast misdeeds.

Alisa Roth is a former staff reporter for Marketplace and frequent contributor to various NPR programs. A Soros Justice Fellow, her work has also appeared…

Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy hosted a forum on criminal justice reform in Burlington on Monday with New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. The former mayor of…

More than 30 U.S. cities have reported sharp increases in violence since last year, including New York, New Orleans, Baltimore, Washington, St. Louis and…

The suicide of 22-year-old KaliefBrowder earlier this month has heightened the debate in the United States over the use of solitary confinement in prisons…