This wholly pre-recorded show featured a lot of prison related covid-19 news. We then aired an interview (recorded pre-covid hitting canada) with Miatta Gorvie, a conflict mediator and facilitator associated with COCo (coco-net.org) in Montreal. We ended the show with audio from one of the hunger strikers at the Laval migrant prison – people there are on hunger strike demanding their own release from prison in the context of the covid pandemic. For more information about their struggle, visit solidarityacrossborders.org.
You can download the show here.

Welcome to 2020! Here is the main interview from our first show of the year. https://archive.org/details/kiraonconflictpart2

It is with Kira who we talked to in the fall of 2019. Part one aired on an earlier show. In part two, Kira talks about transformative justice and community accountability processes.

Kira mentioned a few people and organizations in her interview. Here they are:

http://eddiejudehareven.com/

https://thirdeyecollective.wordpress.com/

This is the bulk of the audio from our show on December 27, 2019. It is the audio from a talk that happened in Montreal on November 9, 2019. More info and download link here: https://archive.org/details/phifoundation

The talk was titled “Prison History and Resistance in so-called Canada”.

Show featured an interview with Kira, a conflict mediator and facilitator who works at CoCo (https://coco-net.org/). Interview is here.

Show also featured news commentary from Muti Ajamu-Osagboro. Muti was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole as a teenager in Pennsylvania. He has been calling into the Prison Radio Show for a couple years now to record commentary mostly about the prison system in Pennsylvania. For context in recent years, the US Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to sentence juveniles to mandatory life without parole sentences. However, they left it up to states to decide how to proceed regarding cases that had already been sentenced. Many people, the vast majority of them black teenagers, were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole as juveniles in the 90s during the wave of panic over the racialized image of the “super predator”. Muti, like many others, awaits an outcome for his situation. In the meantime, he’s been calling in to our show with his commentary. Here are two recent pieces from him.

For today’s show, we’ll be bringing you a talk given by Jackie Wang at the McGill University on April 4th of this year. Jackie is the author of the book Carceral Capitalism. She is also an essayist, poet, filmaker, community activist and in her free time (if there is any after all that! :)) a PhD student in History.

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This show has an interview with Rustbelt Abolition Radio about electronic incarceration. Very scary stuff that everyone should be concerned about. Also, there is another opinion piece from Gene, coordinator of the Prison Radio Show. He talks about some of the difficulties that long term prisoners may face when they get out.

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On this show we have an interview with Clementine Morgan about psychiatric incarceration, followed by an opinion piece from Gene. Finally, we will re air the rest on an interview we did with folks from the Perilous Chronicles which due to technical difficulties we were unable to air in our February show.

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Welcome to the Prison Radio Show. Today’s show will have a piece about homelessness as pertains to prisoners inside and when they are released to the community. We’ll also hear a news commentary from Muti Ajamu-Osagboro, a prisoner in Pennsylvania. Finally we share an audio recording from 2011 by Les Filles Electrique featuring women from inside Tanguay and Joliette prisons.

Freeform radiotalk radio

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Interview with Duncan from Perilous Chronicle – a site amassing information about prisoner resistance since 2010 in the US and Canada.

https://perilouschronicle.com/

Ran in part on one of our February 2019 shows, but we wanted to share the full interview here.

Perilous Chronicle also has a PO Box. It is not included in the interview, so for folks re-airing for people on the inside please say this on your show:

“Perilous Chronicle

P.O. Box 381

Tucson, AZ 85702

Please note that we are unable to assist with issues unrelated to our research. If you have information about prison resistance that may meet our criteria please write to us with as much information and documentation as possible. Please consider having other prisoners who have witnessed or taken part in the event write to us as well. Please note that outgoing mail may be monitored and do not send us information that may be incriminating to yourself or others. We are unable to guarantee a response to your letter.”

Featured Speakers/Commentators: Papi, ex-prisoner, speaks on years in Canadian prisons.

Contributor: Prison Radio CKUT [Contact Contributor]

Summary: Papi, an ex-prisoner, speaks about his life experiences in the Canadian penitentiary system in the eighties and nineties.

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