Tag Archives: Prisoners

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: 28:32 — 65.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia, Aren Aizura parses out the stakes of the protest camp, its participants, and the escalation to the breakout.  From there, Aren moves to the escape itself, the emotional …

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: 29:15 — 22.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis episode, we focus on two individuals who are working to organize support systems for communities that are directly affected or targeted by law enforcement and incarceration. First, we continue our conversation with Akili Shakur, wife of prisoner Shaka Shakur, who works to organize support groups for …

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: 29:04 — 66.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe return to the topic of education within the prison system. After some prison news, we hear a statement written by someone who taught in prisons in the Midwest. Then we return to Micol Seigel’s discussion with Jarrod Wall, who tells us about getting a degree while …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:12 — 64.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode, we introduce a new topic, going “off-paper.” When prisoners finish their time and re-enter the free world, they confront a whole host of barriers and questions that extend the hold that institutions have on them well past their “on-paper” sentences. To begin, we hear …

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: 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 …