We're welcoming a new show into the Radiotopia family. The name of the

podcast is Ear Hustle. It features stories of life in prison, told and produced by

prisoners living in San Quentin State Prison.

To support ear hustle all of the shows at Radiotopia

created an episode around the theme Doing Time.

If you want to listen to them you can go to radiotopia.

F. M.

I'm freeze!

Or you who have shovel.

Salute! I'm sitting in a fold-out chair in an old fraternity house at Bowden College

watching a group of people gather in front of a packed room. Some of them look around my age, 25 or so, but there are

others that are younger, maybe just out of high school. Most of the people

standing in front of me were sent to Maine's juvenile

correctional facility some for a few months others for up to five years and they're

all wearing a hoodie that reads do you see me? Trying to let my voice out.

Gotta break the walls and set it free.

I just want you to know

This is the real thing. Initially I thought I would attend this theater performance to listen to what it's like to serve time as someone in their 20s

but as the performance is going on I look around the room and I see a man in the

corner who catches my eye. He's older, probably in his early 50s. I can feel his intense focus

as he watches the performance.

He's nodding, smiling, he's also wearing the same hoodie,

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