Why didn’t you come see me, Dad?

Why didn’t you come see me, Dad?

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...
Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass

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...

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