I reported and produced this episode in 2019 as part of the 70 Million podcast’s Peabody Award-nominated second season. In 2020, this episode won the Third Coast International Audio Festival Director’s Choice Award.
Five years after Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining serious momentum to shut down the city’s notorious Workhouse jail.
Listen on Apple Podcasts or Radio Public. Annotated transcript available here.