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Host/s: Various Production Coordinator: Daria Cullen Other credits: TECHNICAL SUPPORT – Aaron Pyle and Sarah Johnson | MUSIC – Samuel James Justice Radio is a WMPG production Justice Radio: Tackling the hard questions about our criminal legal system in Maine. This week: Highlights of the following episodes: Are Prisons the Answer? Episode 27 – Toward Hope and Renewal (aired 5/7/23) Can we move toward hope and renewal? Find out with hosts Leo Hylton and Catherine Besteman and special guest Reverend Jane Field, Executive Director of the Maine Council of Churches, as they explore why faith groups support LD 178, a parole bill considered by Maine lawmakers. From Our Perspective: Voices of the Directly Impacted Episode 10 – Punishment: Perpetuating Generational Cycles of Harm (aired 1/8/23) Host Marion Anderson and special Guest Kayla Kalel, co-creator and co-founder of The Birth Justice Collective, talk about forms of punishment we use so widely in society through the prison industrial complex th