Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, October 20th, 2022. Later in the program, we have some updates from the Community Justice Response Committee on the potential new jail site on Fullerton Pike. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 19th, 2022. Later in the program, we have the latest edition of Disabulletin – a segment on disability and neurodiversity issues. Correspondent Abe Shapiro continues his coverage on a lawsuit against the rideshare company Lyft for the alleged lack of …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:28 — 41.9MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, October 6th, 2022. Later in the program, we have a brief update on Monroe County’s proposal to build a new jail. This comes from the producers of Kite Line – our public affairs program devoted to prison issues in the Midwest …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:57 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 5th, 2021. Later in the program, we have Part I of an interview with Judah Schept, an organizer for Decarcerate Monroe County, regarding the expansion of the Monroe County Jail. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, September 27th, 2021. Later in the program, we have an excerpt from our public affairs program Kite Line, from an episode titled “A Slightly Bigger Cage – Jail Expansion for Monroe County.” More coming up in today’s feature report. Also coming …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:05 — 13.9MB)Subscribe: RSSAccording to a recently completed study of incarceration and the local criminal justice system, Monroe County has uncovered a number of “critical issues” that “require urgent attention and remediation.” Initiated in 2019, the “cornerstone-purpose of this study was twofold: 1) gain a clearer understanding of jail conditions and court related …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 36.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe begin this week with a short piece by WFHB reporter Aaron Comforty, who reports on an alleged instance of attempted suicide in the local jail, and one mother’s attempts to find out the status of her son. We also speak with Ted Smith, an Associate Professor …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 41.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we speak with two writers, Laura Lasuertmer and Wendy Lee Spacek. Spacek and Lasuertmer run a writing workshop in the local jail. They tell us about the writing program, what led them to do this project, and its impact on folks in the inside. Then, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:19 — 24.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn today’s segment we brought you news that Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is trying to block two woman from testifying about allegations of sexual misconduct as he faces a disciplinary hearing on separate claims that he drunkenly grouped 4 women at a bar last year. Monroe …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 0:54 — 863.8KB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAn Indianapolis man was arrested this morning, after allegedly breaking into local musician John Mellencamp’s home. The 48-year old Robert Carter allegedly rammed his SUV through a security gate at Mellencamp’s Lake Monroe residence. He then kicked down the front door, investigators say, at around 6 a.m. …
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