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.
Explore the episode archive at kitelineradio.org
259 Pieces
Order by:
Newest First |
Oldest First
In this episode, we share a phone call and three short essays from Timothy Smith. Smith spoke to us from inside Cook County Jail, the most recent p...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 25:15
This week, we return to the history of black radicalism within the prison system. You can hear more from Dr. Micol Seigel and Dr. Garrett Felber ab...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:23
This week, we are changing our format slightly. After hearing a letter from a prisoner involved in Operation PUSH, we are broadcasting an intervie...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:22
This episode, we start out with a statement from Anastazia Schmid, a prisoner in the Indiana Women’s Prison. She walks us through a brief history o...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:04
In this episode, we start with updates from Operation PUSH. After that, we continue hearing from Craig, who spent significant time in the Monroe Co...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:08
First off, we include an update from outside supporters of Operation PUSH, the strike in Florida prisons that is now in its fifth day. We will cont...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:28
This week, we feature two snapshots from fast-developing situations inside the prison system. First, we share an anonymized statement from a prison...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 28:48
In this week’s episode, we speak with Karen Smith in Florida, who gives us insights into Operation PUSH. Kicking off in just 10 days, Operation PUS...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:17
In this week’s episode, we hear from Valerie Buford, the sister of Leon Benson, a prisoner here in Indiana. Valerie talks about the circumstances t...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:43
This week we speak with Naomi Paik about her 2016 book, Rightlessness. Her work addresses the most pressing contemporary issues, drawing together t...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:59
This week features our second segment on PREA- the Prison Rape Elimination Act. Last week, we heard from Irene, who is being held in the Indiana Wo...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:12
This episode is the start of our conversation about PREA, the Prison Rape Elimination Act. PREA was passed in 2003 with unanimous support from both...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:52
This week, we share part of a talk from two women organizing with prisoners. They speak candidly about the basics of supporting prisoners, and incl...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:42
In this episode we give follow-up information about the hunger strike at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Then, we finish a conversation wi...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:35
In Wabash Valley, Shaka Shakur is maintaining his hunger strike, demanding an end to guard abuses and the isolation of active prisoners in camera c...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:54
This week, we share the words and experiences of Salomon X, a former prisoner in Illinois. In the first of two episodes with Salomon, he describes ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:15
This week, we speak with Lill, a resident of Whitesburg, Kentucky. Whitesburg is located in Letcher County the proposed home to a new federal priso...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:15
Last April, the Indiana Department of Corrections banned all correspondence to it’s 25,000 prisoners, except that which is handwritten on lined whi...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 28:04
This week we share the first part of a lecture by Elizabeth Hinton delivered at IU on October 12. In her talk, she traces the creation and rise of...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 27:34
This week is the first episode of several about the intersection between the media and prison struggles. In January of 2015, journalist Barrett Bro...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 21:33
