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Exposing violence and cover ups, the new season of Motive investigates the hidden world of big prisons in small towns. Places where everyone knows each other and difficult truths get buried.
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Listen to Motive, a Society & Culture podcast by WBEZ Chicago. Stream 49 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 49 episodes6: Aftermath
Anti-violence worker Cecilia Mannion confronts her desire for revenge after the car her kids are riding in is shot up 20 times. Meanwhile ou...
5: Collateral Damage
A 14-year-old boy whose father was wounded in a gang shooting faces down threats of violence and the temptations of joining a gang. Meanwhil...
4: Getting In And Getting Out
The gang murder of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams shook Chicago and affected many of the anti-violence workers on the West Side. As former gang mem...
3: Underpaid And Underappreciated
Gunshot victim Joey struggles to get police to arrest the man he believes seriously wounded him and killed his neighbor. Meanwhile, low-pay...
2: De/Escalation
Sirenzo Strong spends his work days trying to talk to gang members in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood. Part of his turf is the sit...
1: After The Gunfire
Former gang members are out on Chicago’s streets trying to slow the relentless violence. A man shot 11 times hides with his kids at home.
'Motive' Season 5 Podcast Trailer
On the West Side of Chicago, a father is seriously wounded by an apparent gang shooting. The worker who comes out to help him heal mentally...
Bonus: Prisoncast
In this bonus episode of Motive, we bring you some excerpts from a special project we created. After a years-long investigation into prisons...
Motive Presents “Through the Cracks”
From our friends at WAMU and PRX. When 8 year old Relisha Rudd disappeared from a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C. in 2014, nobody notic...
7: Where Life is Precious, Life is Precious
Prisons helped rural towns, while Black communities in Chicago paid a heavy price. Now, rumors swirl that parts of Pontiac prison may close.
6: The Prison Sweepstakes
In the 1980s Illinois leaders held a competition, where rural towns competed to “win” prisons and the jobs that come with them.
5: The Trial
Two Illinois prison guards were tried for beating Larry Earvin to death. We try to make sense of the trial and what it says about prisons?
Update: The Trial, and Other News
A short update on Motive Season Four.
4: No Justice in Politics
A man goes into prison with a 7 year sentence. But ends up getting 97 more years. How does that happen? And what do small town politics have...
3: The Major and Her Crew
State investigators interrogate a high-ranking prison guard, who is accused of coordinating attacks on prisoners.
2: Us and Them
Damaria Bates and Jimia Stokes started their jobs as mental health workers, full of hope. But soon, they saw signs of severe abuse-- mentall...
1: The Blind Spot
Men in an Illinois prison said they were beaten in a spot with no security cameras. But no one took action, until someone died. Exposing vio...
'Motive' Season 4 Podcast Trailer
Exposing violence and cover ups, the new season of Motive investigates the hidden world of big prisons in small towns. Places where everyone...
8: Bloodlines
Clark Martell was at the vanguard of reviving the white supremacist movement. Then, he disappeared. His trail reveals how sex, money, and bl...
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