Nancy Mullane
ReporterNancy Mullane develops, reports, and produces feature stories for This American Life, National Public Radio, and KALW. She is the author of the book Life After Murder: Five Men in Search of Redemption.
She is a member of the Society for Professional Journalists, the Association of Independents in Radio, and the International Women’s Media Foundation.
In 2011, Nancy was the recipient of a National Edward R. Murrow Award.
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The outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease at San Quentin State Prison in the last week sickened six inmates and sent dozens more to the medical ward. The… -
Today is day 24 of the prison hunger strike in California. It started off with thousands of prisoners refusing meals, protesting the conditions in the… -
Nearly 500 inmates serving life sentences have been freed from California prisons since voters passed Proposition 36 last November. The law authorized… -
San Quentin State Prison has four massive cell blocks, each identified by their cardinal direction: north, south, east, and west. Of the four, only one… -
KALW's Nancy Mullane spent the last year touring the most secure prisons in California, including death row at San Quentin, the Protective Housing Unit at… -
This story was the first of a six-part series following Nancy Mullane in her efforts to increase media access to prisons. It first aired in October 2012.… -
It’s early. About 5 in the morning and I’m heading south on Highway 5 toward Corcoran, a farming town of about 24,000 people. However, that population… -
California has just six months left to meet a federal court deadline to reduce its adult prison population from 156,000 inmates to 109,000 – in a prison… -
San Francisco Unified School District recently hired a new meal provider, Revolution Foods – a private company based in Oakland that serves healthier,… -
Between 2000 and 2009, 57,000 men and women convicted of murder were released from state and federal prison.By the time convicted murderers are released,…
