Tag Archives: incarceration

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:58 — 54.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively, legally killed by the state but the death penalty persists as an assertion of the sovereign right to take life or to let …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:10 — 55.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week we share news and stories from two people who have been caught up in very different ways in the web of prison. Both Bresha Meadows and Patrick Pursely have recently made steps forward in escaping this web, and we are excited to share news from …

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: 29:50 — 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: 29:10 — 66.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn 2002, imprisoned refugees inside Australia’s Woomera immigration prison coordinated with 2500 outside supporters who had pitched camp outside the facility.  Their coordination allowed them to stage a mass breakout.  This is the first of three episodes dedicated to telling this story, from an interview with a …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:10 — 64.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion between our friend Lucy and one of her fellow classmates at Indiana University, Rafael Green, III. Rafael describes having multiple family members in prison during his childhood, and the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:19 — 64.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners’ Writing Project, a piece by Shaka Shakur, entitled “Black Pain”, and a song by local musician Billy Young. Shakur is currently serving time in the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:03 — 64.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we hear some prison-related news and then return to the topic of pregnancy in prison. We continue our discussion with Dr. Alicia Suarez, a sociologist who researches pregnancy and childbirth as it relates to incarcerated women. She continues the discussion from our Pregnancy in Prison …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:11 — 23.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week’s episode begins to explore the intersections of borders, documentation, and incarceration. We look at the history of U.S. immigration policy, and how immigrant detention has become such a racialized institution. We also hear from a local latinx poet, and learn about local initiatives led by …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:20 — 20.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode, we focus on the September 9th National Prison Strike. We hear the Free Alabama Movement’s initial call for the strike, learn a bit about prison labor and Whole Foods, get an update on Siddique Hasan’s ongoing hunger strike, and talk with people involved in …