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It is the intention of Jaws of Justice Radio to investigate how to achieve justice in America, this includes issues of economic injustice, political injustice and the criminal justice system. We want to put a human face on those caught in the grasp of injustice and those that are part of an unjust system. We strive to dispel the misconceptions created by the news and entertainment industry, politicians and our educational system.
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Craig Lubow is a criminal defense and family law attorney in Kansas. Craig has been a progressive activist since the early 1970s, starting in the War Resisters’ League. Craig serves on the executive committee of the Kanza Group of the Kansas Sierra Club.
Mr. Bell has significant experience in criminal matters at the local, state and federal level. After obtaining his business and tax law degrees, Mr. Bell worked as a tax and estate planning attorney. Combining his desire to help people with his love of the law, Mr. Bell then served as a trial attorney with the Missouri Public Defender’s System in Jackson County, Missouri where he represented thousands of clients in matters ranging from misdemeanor assault to first degree murder. Now in private practice as a criminal defense attorney, Mr. Bell's practice areas include white-collar, violent offenses, drug offenses, and sexual offenses.
I am a native son of Kansas City, Missouri who recently returned to this city after a long expedition, or journey that took me to some of the places in America that are referred to here at KKFI as the “Jaws of Justice!” Once I heard that terminology, I automatically knew this is where I belonged and I have been here every sense.
Margot Patterson is a writer and editor. Most of her experience has been in print journalism, frequently writing on U.S. foreign policy and the Middle East. In 2019 she and co-hosts Jamie Jackson and Jeremy Rothe-Kushel started “Understanding Israel-Palestine,” a now-weekly program that seeks to provide listeners with a more informed perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than is often available in the mainstream press. She is a long-time contributor to KKFI’s “Jaws of Justice” program and has interviewed a wide range of policy experts, criminologists, law enforcement officials and former inmates on topics ranging from juvenile justice detention, mass incarceration and police training to domestic extremism, human trafficking, solitary confinement and new technologies of incarceration.
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It is the intention of Jaws of Justice Radio to investigate how to achieve justice in America, this includes issues of economic injustice, political injustice and the criminal justice system. We want to put a human face on those caught in the grasp of injustice and those that are part of an unjust system. We strive to dispel the misconceptions created by the news and entertainment industry, politicians and our educational system. We want to pull back the veil and reveal those that really write our laws and who our justice system is meant to protect. It is our intention to seek out alternatives to the present practice that puts the law before justice, alternatives that are restorative to those that have been wronged and just to those that have offended. In short, we want to inform our society of the realities of the existing systems and in doing so start a dialogue about how to create systems that truly seek justice for all.
The Jaws of Justice Radio group is made up of formerly incarcerated citizens, family members of victims, family members of the incarcerated, lawyers, and justice seeking members of our community. We invite you to join the dialogue.
Jaws of Justice Radio has covered issues of law enforcement, courts, incarceration, homelessness, economic injustice, foster care, death penalty, constitutional rights and more. We are looking for organizations and individuals to tell their story, and more folks that want to learn how to produce radio.
Executive co-producers are Craig Lubow and Margot Patterson.
September 25, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
JUSTICE SERIES, part one: Mr. Dion Sankar, the Chief Deputy Prosecutor for the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office
JUSTICE SERIES, part one: host David Bell speaks with Mr. Dion Sankar, the Chief Deputy Prosecutor for the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office about how mercy seasons justice.
ListenSeptember 18, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
KANSAS CITY DECLARES ‘EXPUNGEMENT WEEK’ FOR CRIMINAL RECORDS; IN THE NAME OF FREE PRESS, ADVOCATES CALL TO FREE JULIEN ASSANGE
Host Bev Livingston begins the hour speaking with Johnny Waller, Jr., CEO of the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Clear My Record Expungement Program. On September 14th, Kansas City Missouri government passed a Resolution Recognizing National Expungement Week in Kansas City. September 17 - 24, 2023 National Expungement Week so that awareness can be raised about the importance of expungement.
Next, Host Terri Wilke will speak with Jeff Stack, a self-employed public educator from Columbia MO who helps coordinate the Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation and Halo Benson, an advocate for Julien Assange and Wikileaks. All over the world, activists and volunteers have been hard at work to bring awareness to Assange’s prosecution and the continued threat to free press.
September 11, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Fear of Too Much Justice
Authors Stephen Bright and James Kwak join host Craig Lubow to talk about their book, "The Fear of Too Much Justice", where they discuss "Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts.
ListenSeptember 4, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
DARE TO BE CREATIVE
On our program for September 4th, host Terri Wilke speaks with Author and Lecturer Brian Daldorph. In June of 2018, Jaws of Justice broadcast an amazing interview of Brian Daldorph by local published poet Arlin Buyert. We will begin our hour with a replay of Arlin Buyert’s interview.
ListenAugust 28, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
WAYS TO BE INCLUSIVE OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Host David Bell speaks with Amanda Knightly, also known as Misa On Wheels, on the connection between empathy and (dis)ability.
ListenAugust 21, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
JAWS OF JUSTICE IS AN AWARD-WINNING RADIO HOUR THAT FEATURES AWARD WINNING COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT!
JAWS OF JUSTICE IS AN AWARD-WINNING RADIO HOUR THAT FEATURES AWARD WINNING COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT!
ListenAugust 14, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
VOLUNTEERS IN CORRECTIONS
Host Macy Jones speaks with Mike Farmer, President of Gracious Promise; a volunteer led, Christ-centered ministry serving the jails in Cass, Clay, Platte Counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. Their mission is to help the incarcerated find hope and purpose through the Gospel of Jesus. They assist men and women from jail in their return to society.
ListenAugust 7, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
NEVER AGAIN
On our program for August 7th, we will commemorate US involvement with warfare in the world because it is the anniversary of August 6th and 9th, when the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The aerial bombings together killed over 100,000 and maybe over 200,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
ListenJuly 31, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
WE ARE OVERDUE FOR A CHANGE
On our program for July 31st, we will begin our hour and hear host Keith Brown El’s interview with Patrick Sumner, candidate for Unified Government District 2 Commissioner. Voters will take to the polls Tuesday, August 1st for primary elections that will ultimately reshape Wyandotte County’s governing body for the next four years.
For the second part of our hour, host Keith Brown El speaks with Narene Stokes and her Attorney, Cyndi L. Short. Narene Stokes is the mother of Ryan Stokes, Ryan Stokes, an African-American man who was gunned down by a Kansas City Police Department officer in the Power & Light District on July 28, 2013, after a drunk white man falsely accused Stokes of stealing his cell phone. Please tune in! https://kkfi.org/listen/
July 24, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
LEVEL UP, PONY UP AND ACCOMPLISH THINGS WE NEVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE
Host David Bell will speak with Maria Parker, Author of “Do Tough”, and CEO of Cruz Bike. This episode will be part 4 of the Empathy Series. And their topic is – how can we put ourselves into someone else’s shoes when we cannot fully grasp their life experience?
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