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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Criminal Justice

Taryn Mitchell playing with her daughter at Folsom Women's Facility in Folsom Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Radio Times
Courts & Law

Incarcerated mothers and their children

What happens to a child when their mother is sent to prison?

Air Date: January 18, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Six former officers of Wilmington Trust have been sentenced to prison for financial crimes. (image via Google Maps)
Courts & Law

2 more former Wilmington Trust officers get prison time for ‘tangled web’ of crimes

Six former officials of the former Wilmington Trust bank, including former CEO Robert Harra, are now headed to prison for financial crimes.

8 years ago

Carnations are piled beside a portrait of murder victim Jenna Burleigh after a memorial service at Temple University's Founder's Garden
Courts & Law

Jurors convict man in Temple University student slaying

Jurors in Philadelphia have convicted a man in the murder of a 22-year-old Temple University student. The panel convicted 30-year- ...

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's Clean Slate Law allows for the sealing of most simple assault convictions and first-degree misdemeanors. (Photo by Flickr user Nic McPhee, used under a Creative Commons license)
Courts & Law
Broke In Philly

Pa.’s new Clean Slate Law means jail time is no longer a life sentence

Pennsylvania's Clean Slate Law allows for the sealing of most simple assault convictions and first-degree misdemeanors.

8 years ago

#MuteRKelly supporters protest outside R. Kelly's studio, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 in Chicago. Lifetime's
The Why
Community

Why ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ has some black women feeling more included in #MeToo

Why have many black girls and women felt the social media movement that has exposed the misdeeds of powerful men has left them behind, until now?

Air Date: January 17, 2019

Listen 13:51
In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, inmates look on in their college world history class at the Monroe Correctional Complex in Monroe, Wash. College education in American prisons is starting to grow again, more than two decades since federal government dollars were prohibited from being used for college programs behind bars. (Elaine Thompson/AP Photo)
Education
NJ Spotlight

Report: College aid for prisoners pays dividends for all down the line

Advocates say the study shows that federal law keeping Pell Grants from the incarcerated should be overturned.

8 years ago

The Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon Tyner says the three women are “living in an alternative universe.” (Photo via Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office website)
Courts & Law

Claiming gender bias, 3 longtime veterans of Atlantic County prosecutor’s office sue

The plaintiffs — Diane Ruberton, Heather McManus and Donna Fetzer — all have careers spanning decades with the office.

8 years ago

Gold Star Park in South Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Suspect in death of South Philly dog walker held on manslaughter charge

A Philadelphia resident police say threw the punch that led to the death of man walking his dog has turned himself in to police.

8 years ago

A group of two dozen activists briefly block traffic during a rally outside the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office in December, 2018. The group called on DA Larry Krasner to not challenge a Common Pleas court ruling that allows Mumia Abu-Jamal to file an appeal. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Courts & Law

Philly prosecutors discover mysterious ‘six boxes’ connected to Mumia Abu-Jamal in storage room

Philly DA Larry Krasner found six file boxes connected to the case of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. His supporters say it may point to his innocence.

8 years ago

Listen 1:26
 This Dewey Beach neighborhood was inundated with flood waters during Superstorm Sandy. (Chuck Snyder/for NewsWorks)
Down the Shore
Courts & Law

Former cop gets 5 years in prison for Sandy fraud

A former police officer has been sentenced to prison for his role in stealing $187,000 in federal Superstorm Sandy relief funds to repair a vacation home on the Jersey Shore.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania State Capitol building (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo
Politics & Policy

Pa. Safe Harbor law fines helping human trafficking victims

Pennsylvania is working to roll out a law aimed at protecting sexually exploited children. It uses fines paid by those convicted under the law to help the exploited.

8 years ago

While canvassing in Olney, Tarik Harris crosses the street to survey Lindley Playground, which he says is known to be a location for selling drugs. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
Courts & Law

A night with Philly’s ‘violence interrupter’ teams who offer services to curb bloodshed

The strategy to use former drug dealers, gang members and others with violent pasts to help broker peace in troubled neighborhoods is now set to expand in Philly.

8 years ago

Listen 7:18
Jesse Osborne waits for a ruling at the Anderson County Courthouse on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. Osborne, a boy who was 14 when he was charged in the shooting death of his father at their home and a first-grader on a South Carolina elementary school playground will be tried as an adult, a judge ruled Friday. (Ken Ruinard/The Independent-Mail via AP, Pool)
Courts & Law

School shooter’s case to test life sentence for juveniles

A South Carolina school shooting will soon become a test case for court rulings that restrict life-without-parole sentences for juveniles.

8 years ago

A group of two dozen activists briefly blocks traffic during a rally outside the Philadelphia district attorney’s office in December. The group is urging District Attorney Larry Krasner not to challenge a Common Pleas Court ruling that allows Mumia Abu-Jamal to file an appeal of his murder conviction. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Courts & Law

Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters urge Philly DA Krasner to let appeal process proceed

Pam Africa, who runs the International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal, said the Philadelphia district attorney has not done enough to help Abu-Jamal.

8 years ago

Mumia Abu-Jamal leaving a court hearing
Courts & Law

Judge: Mumia Abu-Jamal can reargue appeal in 1981 Philly police slaying

Judge Leon Tucker ruled that a former justice should have recused himself because of comments he made as a prosecutor about police killers that suggest potential bias.

8 years ago

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