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Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Wiz revival on Broadway, the podcast Koreaboo, and the game Balatro.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to ABC reporter Maggie Kent in Philadelphia about themanhunt for convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from Chester County Prison last week.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Polygon editor Charlie Hall about the growing trend of counterfeit board games.

People who fish in Florida and in federal waters are required to have special gear on board to help ensure groupers, snappers and other reef fish survive when they're returned to the water.

U.S. schools can make use of special visas to hire teachers from other countries. In some rural school districts in Alaska, foreign teachers make up over half the staff.

Michael McKuin and Rodney Edinbyrd are both incarcerated at Solano State Prison in Vacaville. Together, they’ve broken the strict racial divisions of prison to play in a band.

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: My Name is Pauli Murray, Strangers with Candy, the On the Job series and the Eurovangelists podcast.

The Justice Department simulation is meant to show how many barriers formerly incarcerated people face after they are released. (Story aired on Weekend All Things Considered on July 8, 2023.)

Police departments find that keeping specially trained dogs on hand to comfort crime victims, and officers themselves, make a real difference in often trying circumstances.

California's prison population is aging — between 2000 and 2017, and the share of incarcerated people over 50 more than quintupled. For those with long or life sentences, watching friends aging and getting sick behind bars is a reality check of what a life sentence can really mean.

On Saturday, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 97 — a new piece of legislation that will remove barriers to overturning wrongful convictions for Californians who are incarcerated in a state prison.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden went to Rolling Fork, Mississippi to visit with people recovering from devastating tornadoes and offer federal support.