The FreeHer Podcast

The FreeHer Podcast raises awareness about the impact of incarceration on women and girls. Through powerful stories and bold conversations, we expose the harm caused by prisons and share strategies for healing, justice, and lasting freedom. We believe in abolition, in community, and in the power of people to create real change.

The FreeHer Podcast is a society podcast hosted by Andrea James, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Andrea James hosts The FreeHer Podcast, a society show with 17 episodes published.

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  Conspiracy Charges Are Putting Women Away for 10 Years (Andrea James)

  Feb 9, 202638 minS0

  <p>Andrea James, Founder & Executive Director of The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls and host of the FreeHer Podcast, breaks down how conspiracy charges, mandatory minimums, and the drug war have devastated women, families, and entire communities. This conversation connects lived experience to policy: why prisons dehumanize, what abolition actually means, and what “accountability without cages” can look like.Links mentioned/referenced in the episode:The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and GirlsFreeHer Campaign (National Council)The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander) (book referenced in discussion)FCI Dublin closure context (referred to in e...

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  How Police & Media Keep Us Afraid of the Wrong Things | Alec Karakatsanis

  Nov 28, 202534 minS0

  <p>Most of what we’re told about crime, public safety, and policing is shaped by police and media propaganda. In this episode of the FreeHer Podcast, civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis breaks down how the police and media manipulate our fear of crime, who actually benefits, and what real community safety looks like.This conversation exposes the deeper harms like pollution, wage theft, and corporate crime that never make the news.Alec Karakatsanis is the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps and author of Propaganda: How the Police and Media Manipulate Our News. Hosted by Andrea James, fo...

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  Abolish Cash Bail: Why “Pay to Be Free” Makes Us Less Safe

  Nov 20, 202550 minS0

  <p>Cash bail isn’t about safety it’s about money. In this FreeHer episode, Andrea James sits with Jasmine Borges (Massachusetts Bail Fund) and Rena Kafa Johnson (FWD.us) to break down how pretrial detention punishes poverty, why “dangerousness hearings” expand incarceration, and what actually keeps communities safe. We talk real numbers, real harms, and real solutions, including bail funds, clemency, and bringing our people home.Massachusetts Bail Fund: https://www.massbailfund.org/Families for Justice as Healing: https://www.justiceashealing.org/Learn about the FreeHer Campaign: https://www.nationalcouncil.us/clemency-works</p>

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  She Was 17 They Sentenced Her to Die in Prison | Juvenile Life Without Parole

  Nov 19, 202538 minS0

  <p>At 17 years old, straight-A student Michelle Pearson was sentenced to life without parole and spent 34 years in prison. </p><p>In this episode of the FreeHer Podcast, Andrea James talks with Michelle and Dr. Raf about juvenile life without parole, the science of the adolescent brain, and why the U.S. keeps sentencing Black children, especially Black girls, to die in prison.We talk about Miller v. Alabama, reentry after decades inside, and what it really means to say, “We’re not free until we’re all free.”🔗 Learn more: https://www.nationalcouncil.us | freehercampaign.org</p>

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  How Federal Restitution Keeps Women in Debt Forever | FreeHer Podcast

  Nov 19, 202548 minS0

  <p>In this powerful episode, Andrea James speaks with law professor Cortney Lollar, author of Empty Pockets and Empty Promises, and justice advocates Tanya Pierce and Mary Kay Rogers about how federal restitution law traps women in lifelong debt even after they’ve served their time.</p><p><br></p><p>💡 Learn more about the FreeHer Campaign:🔗 https://www.nationalcouncil.us/clemency-works</p>

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