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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As we approach the August 21st launch of the national prison strike, Kite Line is focusing on the historic and recent precedents for the current pr...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:57
As the 2018 National Prison Strike quickly approaches, we have news of hunger and work strikes already underway. We have updates on the successful,...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Next week, on August 21, is the start of the 2018 National Prison Strike. Anticipated to be the largest in U.S. History, this strike comes after ma...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:37
This week, we’re sharing selections from an historic interview with George Jackson, whose assassination on August 21, 1971, at the hands of San Que...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:59
The National Prison Strike is on its second week. Shutdowns have been confirmed in five Florida prisons, with new strike activity in Georgia, Calif...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:52
This week we are honoring the anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971. The current National Prison Strike began on August 21st, the anniv...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:06
This week, we are sharing the words from a prisoner who contacted us from inside the South Carolina prison system. In addition to his thoughts on t...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:34
Across the country, thousands of prisoners are facing consequences for their participation in the national prison strike. Some are being denied co...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:31
This week’s episode covers the situation in the Midwest. We hear from Ben and Aaron, who work on supporting prisoners in Ohio and Indiana, respecti...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:50
This week, we hear the stories of three men who share their experiences from years being on the inside. Khalid Raheem discusses his experiences wit...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:25
This week, we hear from Curtis Ray Davis II, who talks about the racist history of Angola Prison- the Louisiana State Penitentiary. After we read a...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:44
This week, we share the final story from the Voices of the Formerly Incarcerated panel that took place during the Fight Toxic Prisons conference in...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:19
In this interview, Elizabeth Hinton sketches the relationship between the civil rights movement, urban uprisings and the beginning of the “War on C...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:03
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Today, we are sharing the next part of an interview with Talila Lewis and Dustin Gibson, two organizers and researchers addressing the intersection...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:06
This week, we listen to Kathleen Rumpf share her stories of her time inside FMC Carswell, a United States federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas for f...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:44
This week, we hear from Leon Benson, who calls us from inside an Indiana prison. You might remember some of Leon’s story from a Kite Line episode w...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:07
This week, we are continuing our talk with Leon Benson, who speaks to us from inside Pendleton Correctional Facility here in Indiana. He’s been ins...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:45
A new movement of refugees fleeing violence and starvation in Central America began to reach Tijuana last month, in the hopes of applying for asylu...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we speak more with Leon Benson, who calls us from inside the Pendleton Correctional Facility here in Indiana. Benson shared his story wi...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:04
This week, we have the first of several interviews that were conducted this fall in São Paulo, Brazil. Kite Line contributor Micol Seigel was there...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 28:42
