by sumac | Jul 16, 2014 | Institutional Apologies
It’s no fun having to visit your kid in jail. It’s even less fun when instead of seeing him, you get locked into a steel-doored concrete room and forgotten. Farad Polk had been visiting his son, who’s awaiting trial (drugs), every Saturday at...
by sumac | Jul 23, 2013 | Musical Apologies, Youth apologizes
A 2003 episode of This American Life had 20 very short stories, and the last story is apology-related and amazing. Told by Ira Glass, it’s from a performance at the Audy Home, the unofficial/historic name for the juvenile detention center in Chicago. The...