The Right On Crime Podcast

Pre-trial decisions have real consequences for public safety. In this episode, ROC Oklahoma Director Marilyn Davidson is joined by Texas Director Nikki Pressley and Americans for Public Safety President Justin Keener to discuss how risk-based pre-trial assessments can help judges in Oklahoma make smarter, fairer decisions—keeping high-risk individuals off the streets, preventing unnecessary detention of low-risk cases, and giving courts the tools to evaluate each case individually, considering criminal history, community ties, and risk factors.

What happens when a simple mistake becomes a criminal charge? In this episode of the Right On Crime Podcast, ROC National Policy Director Rachel Wright sat down with professional trail runner Michelino Sunseri to unpack how taking the wrong trail in Grand Teton National Park led to criminal charges — and a firsthand encounter with overcriminalization.

On this episode of The ROC Podcast, CEO of the Prison Entrepreneurship Program Chris Valka joined ROC's Nikki Pressley to discuss the mission of PEP, how the program encourages rehabilitation, and why second chances lead to public safety.

Oklahoma Secretary of Public Safety, Tricia Everest, joined ROC’s Oklahoma Director Marilyn Davidson for a conversation about fixing Texas’ broken bail system and how a constitutional amendment allowing judges the discretion to deny bail for the most dangerous repeat offenders would improve public safety.