This special episode features a 10-minute audio play written by Kathy Ng and directed and edited by Eric Emma. Created in collaboration with Brown University’s Justice Policy Lab, the piece uses narrative to illuminate themes emerging from the Lab’s research on incarceration and rural communities. The episode also includes a conversation with Dr. John Eason and Dr. Chloe Haimson, offering deeper insight into the scholarship that inspired the story and the broader work the Justice Lab is undertaking.