Tag Archives: Ohio

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor today’s show, episode 50 if you’re keeping track, we return to a Bloomington treasure, author Scott Russell Sanders. We’ll feature two essays from Sanders’ 2012 collection, Earth Works: the first is “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” and that will be followed by “Buckeye.” In …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:00 — 37.2MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, March 18th, 2024. Later in the program, local journalist Dave Askins of the B Square Bulletin reports on the city’s planned pilot program for use of tasers by Bloomington police officers. More in today’s feature report. That’s Deb Pekin from the …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreEarlier this week, Keith LaMar went on hunger strike at the Ohio State Penitentiary.  He has faced escalating harassment from administrators and guards as his execution this fall looms and as solidarity momentum builds on the outside.  This harassment extends to new arbitrary rules preventing him from …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we feature interviews on Life After Lockup from the Kunta Kenyatta Files.  Kunta Kenyatta uses YouTube to speak to a range of people in Cleveland, Ohio, often featuring videos shot from the 107 Club, a half-way house and neighborhood hub.  He speaks with neighbors, former prisoners, …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreKeith LaMar, also known as Bomani Shakur, is a prisoner on Ohio’s Death Row.  He is facing execution in autumn 2023 after being framed in prison due to his advocacy for other prisoners and his refusal to snitch on others in the aftermath of the 1993 Lucasville …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week we return to our conversation between Baye Sylvester and Focus Initiatives’ Jok Huerta. Both formerly incarcerated in Indiana, they described the circumstances that brought them to prison in a previous episode. In this segment, they talk about the way the prison system strips people of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 20.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePurdue University engineers have created white paint that can keep surfaces up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than their surroundings but without consuming energy. According to the researchers, the paint would reduce the need for air conditioning by absorbing nearly no solar energy. The critically endangered North …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 35.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe country might be locked down, but struggles inside prisons and out continue to develop chaotically and unexpectedly intersect with the COVID-19 crisis.  Prisoners in Stateville in Illinois report that they continue to suffer from a full lockdown, restricting their programming and access to phones.  Yet, guards …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 37.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAcross the country, politicians and businessmen are calling for the economy to reopen, regardless of the consequences.  At the exact same time, the corona virus is spreading nearly uncontrolled inside America’s prisons and jails, with concentrations of infections spiking from Rikers Island in NY to the Marion …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:16 — 41.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode, we read a statement by Keith Lamar, also known as Bomani Shakur, who just had his execution date set.  In his statement, Keith wrangles with the violent death the state of Ohio is seeking to inflict on him, but also with the vast challenges …