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CHICAGO MATTERS: Seeking Justice
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Regarding Skokie:
Hate and Free Speech Audio*
originally broadcast April 12, 2000
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Can justice
be served when men wearing swastikas and jackboots embrace the Constitution
to affront survivors of the Holocaust? That was the issue in Skokie
twenty-three years ago, when a group of neo-Nazis tried to stage
a march there. The ACLU represented the neo-Nazis in this constitutional
clash between two fundamental liberties: the right of free speech
vs. the right to feel safe and secure in one's community. Once again
hateful speech is at issue in Skokie, site of a deadly hate-crime
last summer.
Producer: Robert Rand
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Bert
Gast stands before the
Skokie Holocaust memorial,
which he designed. |
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Life
on the Outside Audio*
originally broadcast April 26, 2000
 What
happens to mentally-ill inmates when they are released from prison and
sent back into the community? With few resources to draw upon, they often
slip back into destructive behavior including substance abuse. They stop
taking their medication and end up committing another crime, often minor,
resulting in another trip to jail. How to break this revolving door syndrome
is the focus of “Life on the Outside,” which will profile mentally-ill
ex-offenders as they are released from Cook County Jail. Producer:
Dan Collison
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- Emergency
Mental Health Care Center, part of
Grand Prairie Service -- 708.331.0500
- Thresholds
-- 773.880.6260
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Kind and Just
Parents -- Chicago's Juvenile Court Audio*
originally
broadcast May 3, 2000
Today, as it becomes more and more common to try juveniles as adults,
we look back to the founding of the Juvenile Court in Chicago 100 years
ago. Established by social reformers, Chicago's Juvenile Court was the
first such in the nation and it quickly became a model for the rest of
the country. The reformers wanted this new court to help rehabilitate
juveniles, to be a “kind and just parent.” In this program,
you'll hear how this progressive idea ushered in the modern era of juvenile
justice, changing the way we view youthful offenders.
Producer: Lex Gillespie
A Jury of Their
Peers Audio*
originally broadcast May 10, 2000
This documentary
examines alternative approaches to juvenile justice outside of the courts.
Peer mediation, community justice initiatives, and a program to inform
teens about the legal system and ways to protect themselves -- street
law -- are among the methods visited in the half hour. Listeners will
be on the streets, in community courts (and training programs), and in
the classroom with teens who are learning to resolve conflicts without
resorting to violence. Producer: Karen Michel
Retiring the Robe:
A Judge's Journal Audio*
originally broadcast May 24, 2000
Susan Snow |
Susan Snow was a
Family Court Judge in the Chicago area for nearly twenty years. She presided
over divorces, custody disputes and domestic violence cases until she
retired in December of 1999. Soon after, she began recording her thoughts
about her years on the bench for this documentary program about justice
and the job of a judge.
Producers:
Jay Allison, Christina Egloff,
and Brent Runyon
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Father and Son:
The Fred Hampton Stories Audio*
originally broadcast May 31, 2000
Thirty years ago,
Chicago police stormed a West-Side Chicago apartment and killed Fred Hampton,
the leader of the Black Panther Party in Illinois. The police said they
were searching for weapons and were fired on by the Panthers. But more
than a decade of investigations and trials proved to most observers what
the Black Panthers had always stated -- that the raid was a government
operation targeting
Fred Hampton. Less than a month after his father's death, Fred Hampton,
Jr., was born. An activist who sought to follow in his father's footsteps,
today Fred Hampton, Jr., is serving a long sentence for throwing Molotov
cocktails into two Korean-owned businesses. He and his supporters claim
he is innocent -- that he too was targeted by the state. But, the prosecutors
say it was an open and shut criminal case, with no political overtones.
This documentary
will examine the facts and the controversies surrounding the two Fred
Hampton cases while exploring the ramifications of political violence
for the individuals involved, the justice system and Chicago's political
culture.
Producer: Gary Covino
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