Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 33.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | More On Kite Line this week, we share two interviews with advocates working on the physical well-being of those locked inside. The first conversation we hear is with Olivia, who is part of a group trying to get the word out about unsafe conditions at the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week on Kite Line, we have a wide variety of ongoing prison news- ranging from the recent executions of prisoners in Terre Haute to a prison disturbance in St. Louis. Afterwards, we share a conversation that was sent to us from an outside supporter of the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 33.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share an urgent statement from the Free Alabama Movement about their ongoing hunger strike and economic blackout. Afterwards, we speak with David Pellow, Fabiana Lake, and Camber Wilson, who recently coauthored a report on ‘Environmental Justice Struggles in Prisons and Jails Around the World,’ …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 40.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHappy New Year! This week, we broadcast kites from Strawberry Hampton in Illinois and Daniel Dawson in Saskatchewan, who both called in this week to update us on their conditions. Strawberry Hampton, a Black transgender woman and niece of Fred Hampton, shares the horrific abuses she has …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 38.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday, we broadcast Part 2 of our series on Compassionate Release. Compassionate Release is the principle that sentences should be adjusted given “particularly extraordinary or compelling circumstances which could not reasonably have been foreseen by the court at the time of sentencing”. We now continue to hear …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 33.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe begin this week with a follow-up conversation with Cory Cardinal, who has spoken with us on our past two episodes regarding a hunger strike at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre in Saskatchewan, Canada. Previously, Cory detailed his experiences during and after the hunger strike. And now, …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 34.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we hear from two people who explain the rapidly deteriorating COVID-19 situation in facilities in both Saskatchewan and Indiana. As we reported last week, prisoners at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre in Saskatchewan, Canada organized a hunger strike last week to protest the rapidly-spreading COVID-19 …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 30.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share two interviews with prisoners confronting rampant COVID-19 infections in their facilities. Cory Cardinal, imprisoned at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre in Saskatchewan, Canada speaks about the hunger strike they organized last weekend to protest the rapidly-spreading COVID-19 outbreak at the facility. Prisoners at …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 34.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor our episode this week, we share more from Florida Prisoner Solidarity. Recently, they told us about the drastic retaliatory measures prisoners were being subjected to in the Florida Department of Corrections. These punishments were often given as a response for prisoners advocating for themselves in the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 35.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, share an update sent to us from Michelle Freeman about her husband, Vernell. Michelle’s impassioned plea on behalf of her partner is both urgent and inspiring, and we will continue to air messages from her in the future, as Vernell’s situation evolves. You can hear …
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