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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:10 — 55.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week we feature an interview with Patrick, who reflects on his experience with addiction and prison. His story is both deeply personal and analytic, illuminating systemic connections and paths forward. We also share a long letter from a current Indiana prisoner, who makes an urgent plea …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:12 — 53.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor prisons to function smoothly and profitably, the major tools of control – violence, surveillance, separation – must be complimented by a host of less obvious instruments and technologies. These include censorship in the mail room, the cultivation of racial tension, integration of prisoner labor into facility …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:48 — 52.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week features a variety of conversations that we are sharing with you through a partnership with StoryCorps. The event, Dismantling Barriers to Life, was about the impacts of mass incarceration. Dismantling Barriers to Life was hosted last month in Chicago, and these are some of the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:05 — 53.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we focus on the closing of a volunteer-run dorm in the Monroe County Jail. The Addicts in Recovery, or AIR Dorm, has been a unique part of the local jail programming for several years. The AIR program provides a place for selected inmates to participate …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:40 — 33.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreContent Warning: This episode contains strong imagery about domestic violence and other abuse. This week, we examine the intersections between domestic violence, along with other forms of gendered violence, the courts, and the prison system. To begin, we share thoughts from a collaborator about Bresha Meadows – …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:53 — 45.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur focus for this episode is writing to prisoners. After some prison-related news, we speak with Lukah Revolt, who explains how she went from writing a few political prisoners to writing more than 30 people on the inside. Lukah explains the basics of sending a letter inside, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:49 — 52.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis episode is a conversation with Steve Garrett, who during his time in Ohio’s prison system, used the legal loopholes and statutes he learned to challenge the State on its own terms. He shares stories with us about how he used the law to his advantage.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:50 — 41.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these two situations. We speak with Forest Gilmore, the director of the Shalom Center here in Bloomington. Forest talks about various barriers that both people who …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:14 — 64.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week concludes our series on the mass escape from the Woomera immigrant detention center in 2002. Aren Aizura, who helped organize the solidarity camp outside the prison over Easter weekend of that year, tells us more about the aftermath: follow-up organizing with captive refugees, and the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:32 — 65.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia, Aren Aizura parses out the stakes of the protest camp, its participants, and the escalation to the breakout.  From there, Aren moves to the escape itself, the emotional …