Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:58 — 19.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe phenomenon of mass incarceration has made the United States the world leader in carceral punishment. With only four percent of the world’s population, the United States accounts for 20% of the world’s incarcerated persons. In fact, the U.S. Is the pioneer of mass incarceration and the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:07 — 20.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we have two contributions –one closer to home and one many more miles away- but both aim to describe an unfair relationship of power each contributor’s community faces. We first hear an essay from a prisoner in Southern Illinois, followed by a statement sent to …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:29 — 20.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis episode is an interview with Kwame Shakur, who is currently incarcerated at the Pendleton Correctional Institution. On August 11th , Indiana prison activists held a demonstration at the state capitol building in Indianapolis opposing new Indiana department of corrections regulations restricting incoming prisoner mail. The new …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:28 — 19.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode, we continue our conversation with Ray Luc Levasseur. He is a former underground combatant with the United Freedom Front, which carried out a campaign of attacks from 1975-1984 against South African Apartheid and US intervention in Central America. He spent 13 years in solitary …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 19.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreRay Luc Levasseur is a former underground participant in the United Freedom Front, which carried out a campaign of attacks from 1975-1984 against South African Apartheid and US intervention in Central America. He spent 13 years in solitary confinement after his capture. In the first episode of …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:59 — 19.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week’s story is that of Kara Wild. An anarchist prisoner from Chicago, Kara is a trans woman who has been in a French prison for over a year and a half. We first give some background on her case, and then hear from her friends and …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:47 — 20.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe cover a range of news in this week’s episode- from a brief history of Black August and the upcoming August 19th prison demonstrations, to current prison conditions in regards to education, visitation, and forced sterilization. We then read a letter from prisoner Keith Malik Washington about …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:59 — 20.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe start this episode with a message from Angaza, a prisoner in the IDOC system who describes recent unfair changes in prison correspondence and what people on both the inside and outside are trying to do about it. As of April first, the Indiana Department of Correction …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:57 — 54.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share a conversation with Ramona Africa, who talks about the MOVE 9 case, the 1985 police bombing of the MOVE house, and the relationship between this history and contemporary struggles against prisons and police violence. We also hear updates on the struggle at the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:59 — 54.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of Kite Line, we cover the recent demonstrations outside the Workhouse in St. Louis, Missouri. On July 21, police there used pepper spray to disperse 300 people protesting conditions in a medium-security jail called the Hall Medium Security Facility, known popularly as the Workhouse. …
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