Kite Line

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share an interview with Julie, a researcher who studies the effects of climate change on prisoners.  The conversation was held at last month’s Fight Toxic Prisons conference, and focused on her work on how intensifying extremes of heat and cold impacts prisoners’ health. As …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:19 — 44.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we spoke with participants in the struggle to close Dekalb County jail in Atlanta, Georgia. They walked us through the launch of the movement there, when prisoners smuggled out photos of horrendous conditions inside, which were posted on social media by family members. Since then, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:28 — 43.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOver the past year, the political prisoner support movement has won an exciting number of releases, with long-term political prisoners from MOVE and the Black Panthers finally gaining their freedom.  But many other political prisoners remain behind bars, and their supporters are not slowing down.  Leonard Peltier …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:19 — 43.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreKevin Steel speaks to us about being sentenced to twelve years in prison at the age of 17.  Speaking to us from the 4th annual Fight Toxic Prisons conference- which you can hear at points in the background- Kevin touches on a lot of different topics, including …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 35.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we have several kites, or messages, from people inside and outside of the prison walls. First, we have a statement that was recorded for us on behalf of Keith Malik Washington, who is housed in a Texas prison. In his statement, he talks about the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:14 — 36.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we speak to two long-term supporters of Marius Mason, a long-term anarchist prisoner. He is currently held in a federal women’s facility in Danbury, Connecticut, despite years of struggle inside for recognition of his identity as a transman, and his advocacy for other trans prisoners …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:02 — 40.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we cover some sensitive topics on the show. We speak with Fable, who tells her story of incarceration when she was barely 18 years old. Fable shares her complicated experiences with mental health, sexuality and gender, consent, and violence in prison. In a prison system …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:44 — 45.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn May 20th, Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez became the fifth child to die in border patrol custody since December. He was 16, and had been held for a week in a border patrol outpost that lacked proper provisioning. He had fled Guatemala, currently wracked with drought and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:04 — 33.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we air part of a conversation with Brandon Ackerson, a 36-year-old survivor of an 18 year prison sentence in the Indiana prison system. Newly released, he talks about using the skills he learned and honed during life in the DOC, in which he became a …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:08 — 42.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we return to our conversation with Zolo Agona Azania, who was recently released after surviving decades on Indiana’s death row.  In the second part of the conversation, he talks about researching the death penalty and appealing his death penalty sentence. The efforts of Azania, his …