Fighting Crime dives into the world of crime to uncover the evidence of what actually works to improve public safety. Join journalist Cristina Quinn as she travels across the country - from prisons to universities, police chiefs to inmates - questioning everything we think we know about how to make America safer.
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Mental Illness: Providing the Best Support for All
America’s prison population is greying fast; it’s estimated that by 2030 up to a third will be geriatric prisoners. And with age often comes health issues and the need for specialist medical care. But prisons aren’t built to provide this nor are prison staff experts in giving this care. Which means that it can cost several times more to treat these individuals in prison than if they were released into specialist nursing facilities.
Before people worry about the threat to public safety of releasing elderly prisoners so they can get better and cheaper care in nursing homes, consider that people generally age out of crime, and recidivism rates for this group are far lower than for younger people who are released.
The situation is however made complicated by the fact that many nursing homes don’t accept people who are formerly incarcerated. Our host Cristina Quinn visits one of the nursing homes that does take in formerly incarcerated individuals, this being iCare’s 60 West facility in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, and finds out more about their work, and the potential benefits for us all of having elderly prisoners in such a place.
Guests
Thomas Picard, Resident, iCare’s 60 West facility
Mary Price, Senior Counsel, FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums)
David Skoczulek, President of Business Development and Communication, iCare Health Network
Jess DeRing, Director of operations, MissionCare Health
Scott Semple, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Corrections 2014-19
Gary Bozette, Resident, iCare’s 60 West facility
Around a fifth of American women report being raped in their
lifetimes, and figures for sexual assault are even higher. One
survey shows that a staggering 13.1% of college aged men say
they’ve committed rape. What drives men to sexually assault
women and how can we target men to prevent these crimes?
At the same time, convictions for these crimes are extremely low.
One reason for this is the reporting process can be traumatic, and
so around 80% of women never report their assault or rape.
However with little reporting crime experts also have less data to
understand who to target to reduce rape and assaults. So how can
we encourage more victims to report, and what are steps we can
take to combat these crimes and to keep women and girls safe?
If you have been a victim of sexual assault and would like support,
you can reach out to the National Sexual Assault Hotline at
RAINN.org.
Guests:
Jens Ludwig, Economist, University of Chicago
Jess Ladd, Co-founder of The Fund to Prevent Sexual Assault
Kennedy Johnston, Economics PhD student, Texas A&M
University
Burnout on the frontline of public safety
jeudi 6 août 2026 • Durée 27:28
Police officers across the country are reporting high levels of burn out, with many quitting the force after only a year or two. But when stress and fatigue are part of the nature of the job, what can those on the frontline of public safety do about it?
We hear how the power of human connection, sleep training and artificial intelligence are being used to try and make their shifts more manageable.
Sources:
Elizabeth Linos , Krista Ruffini, Stephanie Wilcoxen. Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment,, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 32, Issue 3, July 2022.
James, L., James, S., & Atherley, L. (2025). The Seattle Police Fatigue Training Experiment. Applied Police Briefings, 2(2), 25–27.