Life of the Law

Tonia Miller lost control and shook her baby to death. That’s what prosecutors said. Miller denied it, but a Michigan ju... Read more

In April of 2014, federal agents raided the studios of 106.1 TOUCH FM in Boston, Massachusetts. They took turntables, mi... Read more

Prison is a walled off, secret world, where inmates and officers live a sort of altered reality. For the past 10 years L... Read more

Each summer, people from all around the country gather for the Soros Justice Fellowship Conference -- three days of meet... Read more

Mothers, brothers, sons and daughters in cities across the country are suffering from the loss of a loved one to police ... Read more

Last time on Life of the Law we presented Unequal Protection - Part 1, the story of Warren McCleskey’s unsuccessful appe... Read more

It's been more than 45 years since a thousand inmates at Attica Prison (Correctional Facility) in New York took control ... Read more

In California, there is one place where people considered to be the most dangerous inmates are incarcerated, it’s called... Read more

Vietnamese fishing communities are still finding themselves grounded by the BP oil spill, one of the largest environment... Read more

Sometimes what’s considered as socially acceptable behavior can also be technically unlawful. Reporter Jason Albert foll... Read more

Traditions. We all have them. Some good and, well, some not so good. Think for a minute. When you were a kid, what were ... Read more

As a child, Serge Turnier fell in love with the sounds of the carnival bands that would pass near his house in Port-au-P... Read more

America is a nation that locks up more people per capita than any other country in the world.  The Sentencing Project re... Read more

"As incompetent and bumbling as the Trump Administration has been in so many areas, they have been brutally ruthless on ... Read more

Welcome to In-Studio from Life of the Law. This week we're talking about our most recent episode Mother and Son, the rol... Read more

All over the world people create. Music, art, literature. But is their creative work protected? Sure there are internati... Read more

Police officers throughout the U.S. shoot and kill unarmed people, in Sacramento, Detroit, New Orleans and in Madison. T... Read more

Red Hook is an isolated neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, once known as the “crack capital of America.” In 2000, residents b... Read more

Ever committed a crime? Were you caught? Arrested? Maybe not. Between a quarter and a third of all adults in America wer... Read more

We all know this feeling. You're driving. Maybe you're speeding. Maybe you don't think you're doing anything wrong. All ... Read more