Tag Archives: Pennslyvania

October 28, 2022: How it is with Us – Women and Incarceration

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share part of a  conversation between Focus Initiatives’ Jok Huerta and Sincere. Sincere, who spent 13 years in Indiana prisons, and now organizes in Indianapolis with other formerly incarcerated people. Sincere speaks to the experience of  arriving and getting settled into prison.  She also …

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December 13, 2019: Recidivism in the First Person

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 38.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor the first part of this week’s episode- we hear from Onishona. In this interview, she tells us about her experiences with recidivism and problems with re-entry. She also talks about the role books, and specifically how books about mass incarceration, such as The New Jim Crow, …

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