A jail stint can really disrupt someone's life.

You can lose a job, a relationship, or thousands of dollars on fees, fines and bail.

Have I ever gone to jail?

Yeah, I just got out, actually.

If he doesn't show up to court, you've got to pay the $50,000.

No green exchange, no kiss the bride.

There's no glamour in a jailhouse wedding.

Off the block, all six episodes tracing the path from city block to jail block and back

are now available on KCRW's iTunes page.

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

In Eastern Europe, saber rattling or risky escalation?

Hello again, I'm Robin Al-Me, and this is To the Point. You'd never know it from this year's

campaign, but Russia and NATO are engaged in the biggest military build-up since the Cold War.

In addition to Syria and Ukraine, the next U.S. president might be faced with Russian aggression

in the Baltic states and puppets at the former Soviet Union.

Vladimir Putin has deployed forces and talked about using nuclear weapons.

Comparisons are being made to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.

NATO's responding with tanks and troops at a time when the European Union is weakened,

and American leadership is fraught with uncertainty.

On our talking point later, a proposal to regulate pornography on California's statewide ballot

opposed by a coalition of strange bedfellows.

First, the news.

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