Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEric King is an anarchist prisoner who was arrested in September 2014 after he carried out a solidarity action to support the Ferguson Uprising. We speak again today with his lawyer, Lauren Regan, about the harsh violence and repression he has faced in prison, culminating in trumped-up …
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January 21, 2022: How Prison Hides
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share two features dealing with the cunning ways that the carceral system conceals itself and the harm it causes. The first is an account from Adrien Espinoza, who has been on the show before, speaking about conditions in the Maricopa County Jail. As a …
Read More »November 5, 2021- The Long Tail of Abuse in the NY Carceral System
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 26.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we finish our conversation with Kelly Grace Price about the campaign to close Rosie’s. Rosie’s refers to the Rose M. Singer Facility, an all-women’s jail on Rikers Island. On average, Rosie’s detains around 630 women, girls, transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex females while they await …
Read More »September 25, 2020: A Loved One’s Plea for Vernell Freeman
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 41.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we hear from Michelle Freeman, who describes the horrifying conditions in which her husband, Vernell Freeman, is being held in Miami Correctional Facility, here in Indiana. Speaking on behalf of her partner, Michelle tells Kite Line about the repeated incidents of medical neglect and retaliatory …
Read More »Better Beware – Stalkerware
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 5.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreStalkerware is a program – a very sophisticated and perfectly legal program – that you can install on your cellphone. Or…and this is the point…somebody else can install on your cellphone. It’s a program that lets another person know who you’re talking to, see your text messages, …
Read More »October 25, 2019: Families Speak Out Against the Gladiator Fights, Part One
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:05 — 34.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePrisoners in California have been subjected to a new and disturbing round of gladiator fights – conflicts between prisoners instigated by guards for their own amusement or to break down solidarity between different groups on the inside. This week, we will begin sharing a powerful conversation with …
Read More »Better Beware: Abusing 911
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:00 — 11.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur emergency services are being slowed down by way too many people who use the famous emergency number for the wrong reasons… some are funny, but this is not funny. Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana. Executive Producer is …
Read More »IU Medicine Accused of Lab Animal Abuse, Deaths
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:19 — 2.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe IU School of Medicine is being implicated in the death of at least 116 animals and the injury of dozens more. The animal-rights group Stop Animal Exploitation Now, or SAEN, obtained 17 non-compliance reports sent from School of Medicine officials to the National Institute of Health’s …
Read More »Daily Local News – April 25, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence are expected to land in Indianapolis, this evening; Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly is breaking with the Democratic Party, and endorsing Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State; The race to oust Joe Donnelly from his Senate seat is growing increasingly vicious ahead of the May 8 primary; A forest fire broke out in Morgan-Monroe State …
Read More »Middle Way House’s Food Works to Become Commercial Rental Space
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:47 — 1.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFood Works, a Bloomington business venture to employ victims of abuse, has shut down. The Middle Way House food preparation business was founded in 2002, with the mission to train and provide job experience to the women housed in the domestic violence shelter. Middle Way House Outreach …
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