Tag Archives: Ohio

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:50 — 41.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week’s episode covers the situation in the Midwest. We hear from Ben and Aaron, who work on supporting prisoners in Ohio and Indiana, respectively. Ben informs about Ohio prisoners who are still facing repercussions from the 1993 Lucasville uprising. We’ve introduced Lucasville in previous episodes of …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 37.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAs the 2018 National Prison Strike quickly approaches, we have news of hunger and work strikes already underway. We have updates on the successful, 108 day hunger strike of Mapuche Shaman Celestino Cordova, who had been denied access to his ceremonial altar while in Chilean prison. We …

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: 29:54 — 68.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into the history of Midwestern prison resistance. We share more of the story of Siddique Hasan – one of 5 prisoners on death row for their role in the 1994 Lucasville Uprising – …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:54 — 27.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Bomani Episode This week, we focus on a topic that is close to many of us on the outside: the story and struggle of political prisoner and Ohio death row inmate Bomani Shakur (known to the state as Keith Lamar). We begin our episode with an …