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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After news, we share a conversation between Christina and Leslie about their experiences obtaining an education while in prison. Both women reflect...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we return to stories of electronic monitoring also known as e-carceration. Micol Seigel talks to Cody, who says he spent about half his ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, share an update sent to us from Michelle Freeman about her husband, Vernell. Michelle’s impassioned plea on behalf of her partner is bot...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
For our episode this week, we share more from Florida Prisoner Solidarity. Recently, they told us about the drastic retaliatory measures prisoners ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we share two interviews with prisoners confronting rampant COVID-19 infections in their facilities. Cory Cardinal, imprisoned at the Sas...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we hear from two people who explain the rapidly deteriorating COVID-19 situation in facilities in both Saskatchewan and Indiana.
As we ...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
We begin this week with a short piece by WFHB reporter Aaron Comforty, who reports on an alleged instance of attempted suicide in the local jail, a...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we share news from a major prison riot in Georgia, before airing the final part of Kristina Byers and Anastazia Schmid’s conversat...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, Bella Bravo speaks to Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan. Kurti is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tennesee in...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Today, August 21st, is the 49th anniversary of George Jackson’s murder by San Quentin guards. Jackson was a leading theorist and militant in the p...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
ICE detainees are a week into a hunger strike at Pine Prairie, Louisiana. This week, we broadcast audio of a call between an anonymous Pine Prairi...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we share important news from around the Midwest and more updates from the struggles in Louisiana’s immigrant detention centers. Kevin ‘...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week marks the 49th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, when 1300 prisoners in New York state overcame physical, social, and political barrier...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Last week marked the 49th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. In this episode of Kite Line, we finish our conversation with Dr. Orisanmi Bu...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we hear from Michelle Freeman, who describes the horrifying conditions in which her husband, Vernell Freeman, is being held in Miami Cor...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
After this week’s news and updates, Kite Line sits down with Keith Malik Washington, who was released from prison last month. We’ve shared many of ...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we share the voices of three prisoners in Florida. Choosing to speak anonymously due to repression, they told us about horrible conditio...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
We return this week to the second part of the conversation between Kristina Byers and Anastazia Schmid. Schmid is an award-winning, formerly incarc...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
We will continue the final installment of the interview between Kristina Byers and Anastazia Schmid next week, as they talk about barriers to educa...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week, we broadcast an interview digging into the problem of barriers to higher education during incarceration. This interview is between Krist...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
