Louisiana’s Broken Promise to the Wrongfully Convicted
New episode: A conversation with investigative journalist Richard Webster on Louisiana’s broken promise to the exonerated Imagine spending years, sometimes decades, in a Louisiana state
The Chicago Justice Podcast takes apart the stories we’re told about crime and public safety. It doesn’t sanitize the truth about crime and justice; it interrogates it. We dig into the data, the policies, and the power structures that shape who gets punished, who gets protected, and who gets ignored. Some conversations are uncomfortable. Others are infuriating. All of them are necessary.
Through data-driven analysis and hard, unfiltered conversations with researchers, reform advocates, and people challenging the system from the inside, each episode dismantles the myths that dominate public debate. From racial bias and police violence to surveillance, incarceration, and policy failures that devastate communities, we reveal how justice actually works, and who it really serves.
If you’re willing to question what you’ve been told, confront what’s broken, and wrestle with what real accountability and safety could actually look like, this podcast is for you.
New episode: A conversation with investigative journalist Richard Webster on Louisiana’s broken promise to the exonerated Imagine spending years, sometimes decades, in a Louisiana state
When we talk about police violence, the conversation almost always centers on force, shootings, chokeholds, excessive force during arrests. Rarely do we talk about a
In this week’s episode, we sit down with DC Councilmember Zachary Parker, who represents Ward 5, for a conversation about one of the most contentious