Kite Line

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 43.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn this episode, we have a letter from a prisoner at Pendleton Correctional Facility about his experiences with COVID-19 there. We share a short PSA about street safety during protests, and a message from Keith “Malik” Washington. On June 3rd, Bloomington residents occupied the courthouse square in …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 33.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we broadcast updates on a riot in Macon State Prison, and two calls from mothers of prisoners at Westville Correctional Facility. After a rebellion by prisoners on April 22, over a dozen prisoners have been moved to a new segregation unit and are being subjected …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 37.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWelcome to the 200th episode of Kite Line. This week, we revisit the important intersection of incarceration and higher education. Barriers to higher education are a key way the incarcerated and the formerly incarcerated are trapped by the system in a cycle of unemployment, low-wage work, and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 40.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis core of this week’s Kite Line is a conversation between Anastazia Schmid and Jennifer Fleming about trying to get an education before, during, and after incarceration. You’ve likely heard Anastazia before on Kite Line, both while she was inside at the Indiana Women’s Prison, and since …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 35.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe country might be locked down, but struggles inside prisons and out continue to develop chaotically and unexpectedly intersect with the COVID-19 crisis.  Prisoners in Stateville in Illinois report that they continue to suffer from a full lockdown, restricting their programming and access to phones.  Yet, guards …

This week, we continue our coverage of the coronavirus within the prison system with three messages from the inside. First, we have some audio sent to us from Oakland IWOC, who recorded a statement from Eric Wayne, housed in the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County. Afterwards, Abu Faheem Shabazz reports on the coronavirus situation in Westville Correctional Facility, and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 37.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAcross the country, politicians and businessmen are calling for the economy to reopen, regardless of the consequences.  At the exact same time, the corona virus is spreading nearly uncontrolled inside America’s prisons and jails, with concentrations of infections spiking from Rikers Island in NY to the Marion …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 36.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor this week’s episode, we continue airing messages about the coronavirus from prisoners around the country. You can call in on behalf of a loved one, or they can call in to record a message at (765) 343-6236. This week, we hear from prisoners in Wisconsin, Louisiana, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 38.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we continue our coverage of the pandemic’s impact on prisoners across the country.  A COVID-19 uprising broke out in Washington state this week.  On April 8, 100 prisoners refused to comply with orders to disperse a protest, and were attacked by so-called “less lethal weapons” …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 41.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePrisoners across the US, and the world, face terrifying prospects as COVID-19 spreads almost uncontrolled inside the prison walls. It’s now or never as they and their loved ones struggle for their release, for adequate sanitation inside, and to self-organize pandemic response in the absence of serious …