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About Kite Line

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.

Mar 18, 18

Kite Line: Women’s Resistance Behind Bars

Kite Line is a anti-prison radio and podcast show out of Bloomington, Indiana. In this episode, they talk with Victoria Law. Listen... Read Full Article

Mar 10, 18

Kite Line: State Women Against Women of Color

Kite Line is a long-running anti-prison radio show and podcast from Bloomington, Indiana. Listen and Download Here This week, we share a... Read Full Article

Mar 3, 18

Kite Line: Reflections in Defiance: Kites From Florida, Indiana, and Greece

Kite Line is an ongoing anti-prison radio program produced out of Bloomington, Indiana. Listen and Download Here This week is focused on... Read Full Article

Feb 23, 18

Kite Line: Conscious in Confinement

Kite Line is a long running anti-prison podcast and radio show produced in Bloomington, Indiana. Download and Listen Here In this episode,... Read Full Article

Feb 19, 18

Kite Line: The Long History of Black Radicalism on the Inside, Part Two

Kite Line is a long running anti-prison radio show out of Bloomington, Indiana. Listen and Download Here This week, we return to... Read Full Article

Feb 13, 18

Kite Line: The Long History of Black Radicalism on the Inside, Part One

Kite Line is an ongoing anti-prison podcast and radio show broadcast from Bloomington, Indiana. Listen and Download Here This week, we are... Read Full Article

Feb 2, 18

Kite Line: The Past Isn’t Passed: Cycles of Violence and Exploitation

Listen and Download Here This episode, we start out with a statement from Anastazia Schmid, a prisoner in the Indiana Women’s Prison. She... Read Full Article

Jan 31, 18

Kite Line: More Insights from the Local Jail

Download and Listen Here In this episode, we start with updates from Operation PUSH. After that, we continue hearing from Craig, who... Read Full Article

Jan 19, 18

Kite Line: Inside the Local Jail

Listen and Download Here First off, we include an update from outside supporters of Operation PUSH, the strike in Florida prisons that is... Read Full Article

Jan 12, 18

Kite Line: Shine A Light – Tensions Spreading in the Prisons

Listen and Download Here This week, we feature two snapshots from fast-developing situations inside the prison system. First, we share an anonymized statement... Read Full Article

Jan 8, 18

Kite Line: #OperationPUSH

Listen and Download Here In this week’s episode, we speak with Karen Smith in Florida, who gives us insights into Operation PUSH.... Read Full Article

Dec 23, 17

Kite Line: Naomi Paik on Rightlessness

Listen and Download Here This week we speak with Naomi Paik about her 2016 book, Rightlessness. Her work addresses the most pressing contemporary... Read Full Article

Dec 17, 17

Kite Line: PREA, Part Two

Listen and Download Here This week features our second segment on PREA- the Prison Rape Elimination Act. Last week, we heard from Irene,... Read Full Article

Dec 1, 17

Kite Line: Feminist Organizing in Prison

Listen and Download Here This week, we share part of a talk from two women organizing with prisoners. They speak candidly about the... Read Full Article

Nov 25, 17

Kite Line: Transitions to the Outside

Listen and Download Here In this episode we give follow-up information about the hunger strike at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Then, we... Read Full Article

Nov 17, 17

Kite Line: Two Weeks Into the Hunger Strike at Wabash Valley

Listen and Download Here In Wabash Valley, Shaka Shakur is maintaining his hunger strike, demanding an end to guard abuses and the... Read Full Article

Nov 10, 17

Kite Line: 23 Hours In & One Hour Out, The View From Menard

Listen and Download Here This week, we share the words and experiences of Salomon X, a former prisoner in Illinois. In the first... Read Full Article

Nov 3, 17

Kite Line: Appalachian Prison Resistance

Listen and Download Here This week, we speak with Lill, a resident of Whitesburg, Kentucky. Whitesburg is located in Letcher County the proposed... Read Full Article

Oct 30, 17

Kite Line: Fighting the Mail Ban

Listen and Download Here Last April, the Indiana Department of Corrections banned all correspondence to it’s 25,000 prisoners, except that which is handwritten... Read Full Article

Oct 20, 17

Kite Line: The Rise of Mass Incarceration, Part Two

Listen and Download Here Our news this week focuses on the prisoners who are fighting California’s wildfires for as little as a dollar... Read Full Article

Oct 13, 17

Kite Line: The Rise of Mass Incarceration, Part One

Listen and Download Here This week we share the first part of a lecture by Elizabeth Hinton delivered at IU on October 12. ... Read Full Article

Oct 10, 17

Kite Line: Prison and the Press, Part One

Listen and Download Here This week is the first episode of several about the intersection between the media and prison struggles. In January... Read Full Article

Jul 29, 17

Kite Line on the Frontlines of the STL Workhouse Revolt

Listen and Download Here This episode of Kite Line, an ongoing anti-prison podcast in the Midwest, talks with participants in the struggle to... Read Full Article

Jul 7, 17

Kite Line Radio Episodes #47-49

Kite Line #47: Toxic in Texas Listen and Download Here This week takes us to Texas, where we hear from Candice Bernd, speaking at... Read Full Article

Jun 19, 17

Kite Line #46: Memories of Boo

Listen and Download Here This week, we return to the story of Clinton “Boo” Gilkie, who died one year ago – on... Read Full Article

Jun 13, 17

Kite Line #45: Ongoing Support for Marius Mason and His Family on June 11th

Listen and Download Here This week on Kite Line we feature Arianna Staiger, daughter of Marius Mason, an anarchist prisoner who used to... Read Full Article

Jun 5, 17

Kite Line #44: The Premature Death of Boo Gilkie

Download and Listen Here June 7th marks the one year anniversary of the death of Clinton Gilkie, and so we devote our June... Read Full Article

Jun 4, 17

Kite Line #43: The Death Penalty

Listen and Download Here The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to... Read Full Article

May 24, 17

Episode #42: Steps Forward

Listen and Download Here This week we share news and stories from two people who have been caught up in very different ways... Read Full Article

May 17, 17

Episode 41: Addiction, Sobriety, and Recidivism

Listen and Download Here This week we feature an interview with Patrick, who reflects on his experience with addiction and prison. His story... Read Full Article

May 13, 17

Kite Line #40: Commissary

For prisons to function smoothly and profitably, the major tools of control – violence, surveillance, separation – must be complimented by a... Read Full Article

May 4, 17

Kite Line #39: Dismantling Barriers to Life

Listen and Download Here This week features a variety of conversations that we are sharing with you through a partnership with StoryCorps. The... Read Full Article

Apr 13, 17

Kite Line #36: How To Write To Prisoners

Listen and Download Here Our focus for this episode is writing to prisoners. After some prison-related news, we speak with Lukah Revolt, who... Read Full Article

Apr 11, 17

Kite Line #35: Jailhouse Law

Listen and Download Here This episode is a conversation with Steve Garrett, who during his time in Ohio’s prison system, used the legal... Read Full Article

Mar 17, 17

Kite Line #33: Escaping From an Immigrant Detention Center, Part Three

Listen and Download Here This week concludes our series on the mass escape from the Woomera immigrant detention center in 2002. Aren Aizura,... Read Full Article

Mar 14, 17

Episode #32: Woomera: Escaping From an Immigrant Detention Center, Part Two

Listen and Download Here In the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia,... Read Full Article

Mar 4, 17

Kite Line #31: Escaping From an Immigrant Detention Center, Part One

Listen and Download Here In 2002, imprisoned refugees inside Australia’s Woomera immigration prison coordinated with 2500 outside supporters who had pitched camp outside the... Read Full Article

Mar 2, 17

Kite Line #30: Support Communities

Listen and Download Here This episode, we focus on two individuals who are working to organize support systems for communities that are... Read Full Article

Feb 28, 17

Kite Line #29: Families and Prison, Part Three

Listen and Download Here Our focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion... Read Full Article

Feb 15, 17

Kite Line #28: Education in Prison, Part Two

Listen Here We return to the topic of education within the prison system. After some prison news, we hear a statement written by... Read Full Article

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