Catch a Kite 5

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Every season we answer questions from listeners in our Catch a Kite episode. This time around, formerly incarcerated people lend their experiences and lessons learned to a group of kids currently incarcerated at a juvenile facility in Madison, Wisconsin.

We’re in the middle of our first-ever spring fundraiser. If you can spare a little to support the show, go to earhustlesq.com/donate. Thank you!

And check out our new, limited-edition T-shirt, featuring an illustration by listener Anna Hicks.

Thanks to Lt. Sam Robinson and Acting Warden Ron Broomfield for their support. Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Find a full list of episode credits at earhustlesq.com.

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0:00.0	Hey, Nige. How you doing?
0:02.0	Hey, E. Well, I guess my closet and I are doing just fine. Thank you.
0:07.0	Glad to hear it. As you remember, a while back, we did a call out
0:11.6	Axon folks in prison to send a snail mail updates about what's happening inside
0:15.4	prison during this COVID-19 pandemic. And...
0:19.0	We finally got some responses.
0:21.0	Mail takes its time coming out of prison.
0:24.0	Yep, so let's start with Richard Gross. He's in Pennsylvania at the State
0:28.2	Correctional Institute at Phoenix. He writes,
0:31.2	At first, the coronavirus didn't mean much here. It dominated the news cycle
0:35.2	and fed the jailhouse rumor mills, also known as inmate.com.
0:39.2	That's what you call prison Twitter.
0:41.2	No, I actually die. That's what your other co-hosts
0:44.2	Rasan call prison Twitter. That's right.
0:47.2	As you know, prison do produce a ton of gossip.
0:50.2	Richard's letter continues, it got everyone's attention when they cancelled
0:54.2	all visits and stopped all our outside volunteers coming in. As a stop,
0:58.2	they threw us some free phone calls and emails. Next, they handed out masks
1:02.2	made by Pennsylvania Correctional Industries. The library limited attendance
1:07.2	to only 10 people at a time as long as they were wearing their masks.
1:11.2	Whoo, 10 people. That's not a lot. You know, the library is one of them spots
1:15.2	where you hang out at it be like 30 people, 40 people in the end,
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