The police have a duty to protect our right to protest while maintaining public safety. Too often they get the balance wrong.  Edward Maguire  is a professor of criminology ...

Prof Muntingh is the Director of the Dullah Omar Institute, a human rights organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa.  He's been involved in criminal justice reform for three decades. We spoke about: Wins and f...

Professor Mark Osler used to push for heavy sentences for narcotics trafficking as a federal prosecutor. Now he helps prisoners petition for clemency.  How's that for a plot twist? In this episode we discuss:-  Whethe...

Prison is supposed to protect, deter,  and rehabilitate. But what if isn't a very effective way of doing those things? My guests offer two different visions of how the prison system could be re-imagined - including a glimpse of a Norwegian...

Prisons don't do what we want them to do. Should we ditch them? Or perhaps reimagine them? Cait speaks to abolitionist and criminologist David Scott about why he hopes for a world without prisons. Then she interviews Are Ho...