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February 4, 2022: Certain Days

We open this episode with our monthly collection of prison disturbances, generously compiled by Perilous Chronicle. Afterwards, we share a conversation between Daniel McGowan and Brian Whitener about the Certain Days calendar. The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project coordinated between outside and inside organizers in the US and Canada. Its founding …

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January 28, 2022- When Homes Become Prisons

This week, we continue to air selections from a presentation moderated by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and featuring James Kilgore speaking on his new book Understanding E-Carceration.  Speaking from his own experience, he emphasizes that electronic monitoring is another euphemism for the expansion of the carceral net across the globe, enriching corporations and shackling prisoners — often at their own expense …

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BloomingOUT January 27th, 2022 – Trans Youth In Sports Bill Pt. 1

BloomingOUT tackles (heh) the controversial and harmful bill, HB1041, in the Indiana Statehouse. It has since passed the Housse and moves on to the Senate to be reviewed and hopefully die. Melanie Davis and Justin Robertson are hosting. Guests are Kit Malone – Legislative Strategist for the ACLU in Indiana, Jeanne Smith – Owner of Bikesmiths &founder and president of …

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January 21, 2022: How Prison Hides

This week, we share two features dealing with the cunning ways that the carceral system conceals itself and the harm it causes.  The first is an account from Adrien Espinoza, who has been on the show before, speaking about conditions in the Maricopa County Jail. As a child, Adrien survived the Adobe Mountain School in Arizona.  As he demonstrates, this …

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January 14, 2022: Sick in the Indiana Women’s Prison

This week, we air an interview with WFYI reporters Lauren Bavis and Jake Harper in Indianapolis. They co-host the podcast called Sick, the second season of which focuses on health care issues in the Indiana Women’s Prison. As they share on the show, the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic ignited their interest in IWP and and led them to research …

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January 7, 2022- We Understand How They’ll Play with Our Lives in Here

The explosive spread of the Omicron variant has brought our focus back to the COVID-vulnerability the prison system imposes on its captives. This week, we speak to two people — one outside and one inside the walls — dealing with the effects of COVID on California prisoners.. We start off with an interview with Olivia Campbell, an advocate for prisoners …

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Local News: 2021 In Review

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, January 4th, 2021. This week, we will take a look back at the stories we covered in the year 2021. In today’s episode, you will hear WFHB Correspondent Aaron Comforty report on a company that focuses on using artificial intelligence and drone technology to construct environmentally sound buildings out of natural materials. …

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December 31, 2021: Russell Maroon Shoatz, In His Own Words

This week, we honor the late Russell Maroon Shoatz. On December 17th, Russell Maroon Shoatz passed away. In 1970, Shoatz was convicted for the murder of a police officer in Pennsylvania and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. On February 20, 2014, Shoatz was returned to the prison’s general population after being held in solitary confinement …

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Field Reporting: 2021 In Review

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, December 30th, 2021. Over the next two weeks, we will take a look back at the stories we covered in the year 2021. In today’s episode, we will review field reports from the last year. You will hear a public opinion poll of the Astroworld tragedy, activists at two protests and an …

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December 24, 2021: Revolutionaries in Isolation

This week, Mwalimu Shakur calls us from inside Corcoran prison in California to share his experiences in the Secure Housing Unit. He’s been on the show before, talking about the gladiator fights used by guards to punish and control the imprisoned population. Housed in Corcoran for decades, he describes how he kept going under such extreme isolation.  We will have …

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