Kite Line
Series produced by WFHB
Kite Line is a radio program devoted to prison issues around the Midwest and beyond.
Behind the prison walls, a message is called a kite: whispered words, a note passed hand to hand, or a request submitted to the guards for medical care. Illicit or not, sending a kite means trusting that other people will bear it farther along till it reaches its destination. On the show, we hope to pass along words across the prison walls.
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This week, we are talking about youth in detention. We are laying the groundwork to continue to talk to current prisoners who were placed in facili...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week on Kite Line, we share a call from a prisoner located in Seattle, who exposes his facility’s careless treatment of prisoners in the face ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Today, we broadcast Part 2 of our series on Compassionate Release. Compassionate Release is the principle that sentences should be adjusted given “...
- Added: Dec 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Happy New Year! This week, we broadcast kites from Strawberry Hampton in Illinois and Daniel Dawson in Saskatchewan, who both called in this week t...
- Added: Jan 04, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we share an urgent statement from the Free Alabama Movement about their ongoing hunger strike and economic blackout. Afterwards, we spea...
- Added: Jan 08, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week on Kite Line, we have a wide variety of ongoing prison news- ranging from the recent executions of prisoners in Terre Haute to a prison d...
- Added: Jan 18, 2021
- Length: 29:00
On Kite Line this week, we share two interviews with advocates working on the physical well-being of those locked inside. The first conversation we...
- Added: Jan 24, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we share audio in support of Dan Baker and Loren Reed, and from Panagioti Tsolkas, who tells us about the important #CagingCOVID campaig...
- Added: Jan 30, 2021
- Length: 29:00
On January 30th, guards attacked Robert Earl Council, and beat him until he was unconscious. Council, also known as Kinetik Justice, is a longtime...
- Added: Feb 06, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we followup on the COVID-19 conditions at Corcoran Prison in California and share news from the uprising in the St. Louis Jail.
Afterwa...
- Added: Feb 14, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Mwalimu Shakur, who spoke in last week’s episode about COVID-19 protocols in his facility, returns this week to share more reflections. He shares f...
- Added: Feb 22, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we brought together three segments that focus on ways the system attempts to repress participants in collective struggles and those who ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we return to an important conversation about grand juries and state repression. Recently, Steve Martinez, an Indigenous and Chicano Wate...
- Added: Mar 08, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we are trying something new so that we can cover the full range of increased prisoner struggles. We will be teaming up with Perilous Chr...
- Added: Mar 15, 2021
- Length: 29:00
For our show this week, we have the first part of a conversation between Kite Line’s Micol Seigel and three members of the Carbondale, Illinois com...
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Up first, we have a comprehensive overview of prisoner protests compiled by Perilous Chronicle, who are collecting information about the many priso...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we share information about the recent disturbances in St. Louis. Afterwards, we have the second part of a conversation with Balago...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we share the first part of a conversation between Garrett Felber and Micol Seigel. Felber has been on the show before, discussing the Na...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Our show this week returns with the second part of a conversation between Kite Line’s Micol Seigel and three members of the Carbondale, Illinois co...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 01:27:00
This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola Unive...
- Added: Dec 11, 2021
- Length: 29:00
