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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:59 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe U.S. was shaken this week by the death of Lashawn Thompson in Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail.  He had been moved to the psychiatric ward after being jailed on a simple battery charge.  Physically healthy when he was arrested, he was left in a cell infested with …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we air an interview with WFYI reporters Lauren Bavis and Jake Harper in Indianapolis. They co-host the podcast called Sick, the second season of which focuses on health care issues in the Indiana Women’s Prison. As they share on the show, the arrival of the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 41.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAfter news, we share a conversation between Christina and Leslie about their experiences obtaining an education while in prison. Both women reflect on the barriers to getting a degree on the inside, and how effective the degree was in helping them once they got out. They also …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 36.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe return this week to the second part of the conversation between Kristina Byers and Anastazia Schmid. Schmid is an award-winning, formerly incarcerated scholar who went to extraordinary lengths to complete her education on the inside. We last heard Schmid describe the impact of Ball State University, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 36.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we broadcast an interview digging into the problem of barriers to higher education during incarceration. This interview is between Kristina Byers and Anastazia Schmid, both  former inmates at the Indiana Women’s Prison. Anastazia speaks to the difficulties accessing a successful educational experience behind prison walls. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe whole country is in upheaval as a vast Movement for Black Lives continues to challenge white supremacy and the institutions of policing and prison. As monuments fall and precincts are seized in Minneapolis to Seattle, the lies and hidden truths of American society are being revealed. …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:47 — 44.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we finish our conversation with Anastazia Schmid. This time around, she talks about labels- and the media’s role in the stigmatization of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. Schmid also talks to us about the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project, and other ways of presenting her …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:59 — 42.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe return this week to our conversation with Anastazia Schmid. Speaking to her just weeks after her release, she talks about stigma and control- both for women and for the incarcerated. After spending 18 years in Indiana prison, her case was recently overturned- due largely to her …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 41.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share the first part of an interview with Anastazia Schmid. Schmid has appeared on Kite Line before, analyzing women’s health care in the prison system. Now, she joins us on the other side of the walls, talking through her release and subsequent support, and …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:04 — 26.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis episode, we start out with a statement from Anastazia Schmid, a prisoner in the Indiana Women’s Prison. She walks us through a brief history of how prisons, and specifically the modern practice of prison slave labor, came about. She also talks through some basics of how …