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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
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
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
- Purchases: 2
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 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 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
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 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
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
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’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
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
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
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
In last week’s episode, we introduced Johdy Polk, who spoke to us about her time behind the prison walls, and urged audiences to see the other ways...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:56
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
