Kite Line

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:03 — 26.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share the first part of a conversation we had with “Joe”. After doing ten years in prison for a sex offense conviction, Joe is now outside and navigating the difficult tightrope that many people convicted of such crimes must walk. A difficult topic to …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:25 — 26.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share a moving keynote speech recently given at the University of Michigan by Michelle Jones. Jones has been featured on multiple episodes of Kite Line, who shared some of her experiences at the Indiana Women’s Prison, particularly issues of mental and physical health on …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:03 — 20.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast week, we began hearing the voices of prisoners on the topic of Angela Davis’s book, Are Prisons Obsolete? Up first, we have Anastazia Schmid’s response to the book, followed by Angaza Iman Bahar reading his response to us from Miami Correctional Facility.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:51 — 19.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we start in on the topic of Are Prisons Obsolete Over the next couple of Kite Line episodes, we will be sharing the words and writings of prisoners- many of whom have been featured on previous episodes- and their responses to Angela Davis’s book, “Are …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:19 — 20.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor this week’s episode we share the first part of a conversation between Micol Seigel and Jackie Wang. Wang is the author of the recent book, Carceral Capitalism. Today, she shares what led her to carceral studies, and the themes in her new book. She speaks about …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:03 — 19.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we start by finishing the discussion between Micol Seigel and Jackie Wang. You can hear more of their conversation on carceral capitalism in last week’s episode. After that segment, we share a series of letters and updates from Operation PUSH, which is still ongoing in …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:12 — 20.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe begin this week with a letter from a prisoner at Pendleton Correctional Facility. He writes about the educational programs available in the prison. He works through some of the problems prisoners encounter when trying to get a meaningful vocational training or degree on the inside. And …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week we share the first of two episodes on Jay Smith’s story, also known as Abu Faheem Shabaz, who was recently released from the Indiana Department of Corrections after spending years inside. As he states, Shabaz was part of the carceral system since childhood, and he …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:02 — 25.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we are airing selections from a panel discussion that took place earlier this month here in Bloomington. Andrea Ritchie and Victoria Law, both of whom were featured on Kite Line earlier this month, sit alongside Andrea Sterling at a panel called “Building Community Resilience”. In …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:19 — 26.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we speak with Victoria Law- a freelance journalist, mother of a New York City high school student, author of the book Resistance Behind Bars, the co-author of the forthcoming book Your Home Is Your Prison, as well as the editor of Tenacious, a journal of …