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, Johdy Polk, from Gainesville, Florida, describes her time inside a women’s prison, while sharing cutting observations on growing up as a...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:14
Last week, Aren Aizura guided us through the history of colonialism in Australia, including racist measures to control non-white immigration, and l...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:47
In light of the ongoing struggles across the country against deportations, family separations, and ICE detention centers, we are sharing an intervi...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:34
This week, we will focus on a specific story about an immigrant detention case in Pittsburgh- and hear firsthand from family impacted by these hars...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:10
First, we hear part of a panel from the recent Fight Toxic Prisons conference, which was held last week in Pittsburgh. Saleem Holbrook shares his e...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:33
This week’s episode is packed with news of struggles and repression. We start with coverage of Indiana prisons and two prisoners who need outside s...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 28:04
This week, we are returning to the topic of Carceral Capitalism. We interviewed the poet and author Jackie Wang in episodes 89 and 90 of Kite Line....
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:42
In this episode, we hear from Timothy Stewart-Winter, an Associate Professor at Rutgers University with a background studying sexuality and incarce...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:38
This week, we share the first part of a conversation we had with “Joe”. After doing ten years in prison for a sex offense conviction, Joe is now ou...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:03
This week, we share a moving keynote speech recently given at the University of Michigan by Michelle Jones. Jones has been featured on multiple epi...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 28:25
For this episode, we are returning to the conditions in immigrant detention centers. Alejandra spoke at the Fight Toxic Prisons conference in Pitts...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:18
Last week, we began hearing the voices of prisoners on the topic of Angela Davis’s book, Are Prisons Obsolete? Up first, we have Anastazia Schmid’s...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 30:03
This week, we start in on the topic of Are Prisons Obsolete Over the next couple of Kite Line episodes, we will be sharing the words and writings o...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 28:51
For this week’s episode we share the first part of a conversation between Micol Seigel and Jackie Wang. Wang is the author of the recent book, Carc...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:19
This week, we start by finishing the discussion between Micol Seigel and Jackie Wang. You can hear more of their conversation on carceral capitalis...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:03
We begin this week with a letter from a prisoner at Pendleton Correctional Facility. He writes about the educational programs available in the pris...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:11
This week, we are airing selections from a panel discussion that took place earlier this month here in Bloomington. Andrea Ritchie and Victoria Law...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 27:43
This week, we speak with Victoria Law- a freelance journalist, mother of a New York City high school student, author of the book Resistance Behind ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:19
This week, we share a conversation we had with Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and activist whose work focuses on police violence against the queer com...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:35
This week is focused on words from prisoners sent or smuggled from inside. From the jail in Evansville, Indiana, to letters from participants in Op...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 30:04
