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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 40.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share important news from around the Midwest and more updates from the struggles in Louisiana’s immigrant detention centers.  Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson is facing threats on his life inside the Indiana Department of Corrections.  An abolitionist in Madison, Wisconsin has chosen to enter solitary confinement …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 32.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreICE detainees are a week into a hunger strike at Pine Prairie, Louisiana.  This week, we broadcast audio of a call between an anonymous Pine Prairie ICE detainee, and a member of Perilous Chronicle. More information on the struggle there can be found at perilouschronicle.com. The strike …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 34.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday, August 21st, is the 49th anniversary of George Jackson’s murder by San Quentin guards.  Jackson was a leading theorist and militant in the prisoners’ movement which had emerged over the previous decade in close relationship to the rise of Black Power.  His books, Soledad Brother and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 30.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, Bella Bravo speaks to Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan. Kurti is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tennesee in Knoxville, and also works with Face to Face Knox, a campaign to restore in-person visitation to Knox County detention centers.  Shanahan is an …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 34.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week marks our 4-year anniversary, and we would like to thank all those who have contributed their stories, labor, and expertise to Kite Line, making it possible to air news and experiences of incarceration for 211 consecutive episodes. Thank you! — In this episode, we share …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 24.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share the voices of three prisoners in Florida. Choosing to speak anonymously due to repression, they told us about horrible conditions inside the Florida prison system. They explain the racial injustice in the prison system, the importance of letting lifers out, the prevalence of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 36.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe return this week to the second part of the conversation between Kristina Byers and Anastazia Schmid. Schmid is an award-winning, formerly incarcerated scholar who went to extraordinary lengths to complete her education on the inside. We last heard Schmid describe the impact of Ball State University, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 25.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe will continue the final installment of the interview between Kristina Byers and Anastazia Schmid next week, as they talk about barriers to education while incarcerated. This week, though, we received urgent calls. Faheem Shabazz is a longtime whistleblower and militant inside the Indiana prison system, who …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 36.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we broadcast an interview digging into the problem of barriers to higher education during incarceration. This interview is between Kristina Byers and Anastazia Schmid, both  former inmates at the Indiana Women’s Prison. Anastazia speaks to the difficulties accessing a successful educational experience behind prison walls. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode, we have two updates from prisoners in California on their conditions amidst the COVID-19 crisis. Afterwards, we speak with Max Felker-Kantor, historian and professor at Ball State University. Felker-Kantor’s particular focus of study is policing and anti-police violence post WWII. He’s been on Kite …