The Permanent Record

Earlier this year, the Marshall Project and local journalist, Wendi Thomas, filed a lawsuit against the Memphis Shelby C... Read more

Noura Jackson was charged and convicted of killing her mother in a 2009 trial that made national headlines; however, cit... Read more

Emily Bazelon's latest book Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration explo... Read more

The new year brought new Federal criminal justice and prison reform, so we're devoting the next few episodes of the Pe... Read more

In this very special episode, we talked to Raymond Santana - one-fifth of the group now known as The Exonerated Five. Ra... Read more

Dr. Margaret Vandiver is a retired professor of criminal justice at the University of Memphis and a strong supporter of... Read more

Rudy Valdez is a filmmaker committed to making cinematic, meaningful documentary films that inspire social change. We in... Read more

Steven Hale is a staff writer for the Nashville Scene. He has been a media witness to three of Tennessee’s most recent e... Read more

In mid-October, Tennessee announced that Edmund Zagorski would be executed on November 1, 2018, and the State intends to... Read more

Carrie Johnson ist the Justice Correspondent for National Public Radio’s Washington Desk. She covers a wide range of eme... Read more

The Daily Memphian is a brand new local media outlet, and its first issue included an expansive investigative piece -- “... Read more

State Representative Raumesh Akbari is a native Memphian and has served in the Tennessee General Assembly since winning ... Read more

The Shelby County general election is less than a week away, and your host is a hopeless political junkie. So, for this ... Read more

With election season in Shelby County in full swing, we present one of two recent interviews with the candidates for Cou... Read more

With election season in Shelby County in full swing, we present one of two recent interviews with the candidates for Cou... Read more

Our guest for this episode is Luther Ivory. He shared some of his experience growing up in Memphis during the Civil Righ... Read more

The United States leads the world in incarceration of children, and Liz Ryan and the Youth First Initiative are leading... Read more

State Representative Andrew Farmer lives in Sevierville, Tennessee and represents the 17th House District. He serves as... Read more

Every time we sentence a person to jail or prison, we also sentence a family to a life without that person. The demands ... Read more

Our latest episode features founder and executive director of Playback Memphis, Virginia Murphy, and Memphis Police Offi... Read more