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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 44.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIt’s been one year since the August 2018 National Prison Strike. This week, we feature a talk from Ben Turk and Amani Sawari- both of whom were important outside supporters of last year’s national Prison Strike. This talk took place at Bend the Bars 2019, a prison …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 33.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor this week’s episode, we share a conversation between Melanie D. Newport and Anne Gray Fisher. They talk about the history of Cook County Jail- the largest facility in the country. Melanie D. Newport is an Assistant Professor of US History at the University of Connecticut-Hartford. Her …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:02 — 39.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share a panel that took place last week in Indianapolis. As we heard last episode, Indiana Against E-Carceration has been organizing to educate the public about the issues surrounding electronic monitoring. They are struggling to prevent the grim possibility that sentencing and jail “reforms” …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:04 — 41.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share a statement from former political prisoner Ray Luc Levassuer about the recent death of his comrade, Tom Manning. Then, we speak with Micol Seigel about e-carceration, otherwise known as electronic monitoring. Seigel works with the group Indiana Against E-Carceration, who have a series …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:10 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we hear from two people- Faith, who talks to us about the practice of inmate lending- and Jason Renard Walker, who speaks on the retaliation he is facing inside. We spoke to Faith at the Fight Toxic Prisons convergence recently, and she told us about …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:06 — 37.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we hear reflections from members of the MOVE Organization. Speaking at the 2019 Fight Toxic Prisons convergence, they give their thoughts on the past and current struggles of MOVE family members behind bars.  Mike Africa, Jr., who was born in prison, speaks about the MOVE …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:22 — 38.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week we share two presentations from the recent Fight Toxic Prisons convergence. Held this past month in Gainesville, Florida, Fight Toxic Prisons is in its fourth year of an annual conferences that focus on the intersection of mass incarceration and the environment. Our first segment features …

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 …