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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We are sad to report that Russell Maroon Shoatz, who was recently granted compassionate release after his decades in prison, has passed away. This week, we return to the final part of our conversation about carceral non-profits with Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan. Kurti is a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola University Chicago, and Jarrod Shanahan is …
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An Indiana University sports media scholar weighs in on the diplomatic boycott against China in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The United States will not send officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing as a protest to China’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses.” Human rights groups accuse China of detaining more than …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, December 13th, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB News Director Kade Young speaks with Associate Professor at the IU Media School Lauren Smith about the Biden Administration’s recent announcement that it will not send any official representation to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as a protest to China’s human rights abuses. More …
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This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola University Chicago, and Jarrod Shanahan, professor of criminal justice at Governors State University in Chicago. Bella Bravo interviews Zhana and Jarrod, who are abolitionist scholars researching incarceration, and in recent years, their work has turned to the reconfiguration …
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We begin our episode with our monthly round up of prison disturbances contributed by Perilous Chronicle. We close out the episode with a call from Adrien Espinoza, who is currently housed in Maricopa County in Arizona. Espinoza, who got his paralegal degree inside, has contributed to the Prisoner Correspondence Project, the Silvia Rivera law project, and intends to work in …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, December 1st, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB News Director Kade Young speaks with Kate Galvin, Artistic Director at Cardinal Stage, about the upcoming Frog and Toad program that will take place later this month. More coming up in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, “Watch Out …
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Our news today is focused on the long-term consequences of incarceration. Not only was one of the oldest juvies in the country finally shut down due to systemic abuse of young prisoners, but a number of old school imprisoned militants, from Khalfani Khaldun to Sundiata Acoli, are being hit with repression or are fighting for late-life release. Reflecting prison’s extended arc …
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Welcome to the November edition of Civic Conversations – a podcast collaboration between WFHB and the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County. Our guest today is former U.S. Congressman Lee Hamilton, who represented Indiana’s 9th district from 1965-1999. Hamilton speaks with host Jim Allison on the current state of our democracy. On the topic of the erosion …
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Host: Melanie Davis Produced by: Melanie Davis & Kade Young It’s been a while, loves! Good to be posting here, again. Justin and Ireland are working and taking care of their partner, respectively. I have an update on this year’s TDoR: Transgender Day of Remembrance that is happening at the Back Door on Saturday, November 20th, at 7 -9 pm. …
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