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Author: Kite Line
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.
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
Feb 6, 17
Kite Line #27: Off Paper
Listen and Download Here In this episode, we introduce a new topic, going “off-paper.” When prisoners finish their time and re-enter the... Read Full Article
Feb 5, 17
Episode #26: Histories of Resistance in Ohio’s Prisons
Listen and Download Here We go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into the history of... Read Full Article
Jan 16, 17
Kite Line #24: The Muse on the Inside
Listen and Download Here Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners’... Read Full Article
Jan 16, 17
Kite Line #23: Childbirth in Prison
Listen and Download Here This week, we hear some prison-related news and then return to the topic of pregnancy in prison. We... Read Full Article
Dec 30, 16
Kite Line #22: Spaces of Exception; Resilience in Prisons and on Reservations
Download and Listen Here This week, we explore various spaces of exception. We spoke with Matt Peterson, a documentary filmmaker and contributor... Read Full Article
Dec 19, 16
Kite Line #20: Community Policing
From Kite Line Listen and Download Here This week, we are sharing a conversation we had with Kristian Williams, author of Our Enemies... Read Full Article
Dec 13, 16
Kite Line #19: Immigration and Incarceration
Listen and Download Here Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS This week’s episode begins to explore the intersections of borders, documentation, and... Read Full Article
Dec 2, 16
Kite Line #18: Dignity in Detention, from Standing Rock to the Spanish State
From Kite Line Radio Listen and Download Here Our focus this week is on Red Fawn Fallis, currently detained in North Dakota... Read Full Article
Nov 26, 16
Kite Line #17: Female Survival in Prison
From Kite Line Listen and Download Here This episode is the second installment exploring women within prisons. First, we get updates on struggles in... Read Full Article
Nov 26, 16
Kite Line #16: Families and Prison, Part Two
From Kite Line Listen and Download Here This week’s episode is the second installment of our Families and Prison series. We speak with... Read Full Article
Nov 13, 16
Kite Line #15: Families and Prison, Part One
From Kite Line Download and Listen Here This week is our first installment of a series covering the impact of prison on... Read Full Article
Nov 5, 16
Kite Line #14: Sekou Kambui
Download and Listen Here This week, we return to the experiences and stories of Sekou Kambui, who was incarcerated for 47 years... Read Full Article
Oct 31, 16
Kite Line #13: Hunger and Work Strikes
Listen and Download Here We learn about the Chicago Community Bond Fund, a group that bails people out of Chicago’s Cook County... Read Full Article
Oct 24, 16
Kite Line #12: The Bomani Episode
Listen and Download Here This week, we focus on a topic that is close to many of us on the outside: the... Read Full Article