Election!

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Incarcerated people in California can’t vote, but that doesn't mean they aren’t tracking electoral politics as closely as many of us on the outside are. In this episode, Ear Hustle’s inside team reveals the winner of its San Quentin presidential poll, while the outside team travels to the Central California Women’s Facility to see how people there would vote, if they had the opportunity.

You can find information about registering to vote here.

Thanks to everyone who spoke to us for this episode, including: Juan, Jerry, Oola, David, Lee, Wesley, Mario, Jose, Shawn, Raymond, Jessie, Cristian, Luis, Cesar, Tomas, Adam, Daniel, Michael Tulo, Bostyon, Greg, Cory, Hardeep, Matthew, and Katy at San Quentin; Lanika, Wendy, Tameka, Latoya, Erica, Amy Lynn, Elizabeth, Mariam, Rosa, Mei, Lori Ann, Charity, Jasmine, Kaieesha, Diamond, Elisa, Debanee, Kaylee, Tina, and Cleo at the Central California Women’s Facility; and Lakshya with Split Ticket.

This episode was scored with music by Antwan Williams, David Jassy, and Derrell Sadiq Davis.

Big thanks to Acting Warden Andes and Lt. Berry at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, Acting Warden Parker, Associate Warden Lewis, and Lt. Newborg at the California Institution for Women, and Warden De La Cruz and Lt. Williams at the Central California Women’s Facility for their support of the show.

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Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX.

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0:00.0	I'm Corey Thomas writer of the play Lockdown. This episode of Ere Hustle contains language
0:06.9	that may not be appropriate for all listeners. Discretion is advised.
0:21.0	I just wondering a while. We want to talk about the presidential election,
0:24.0	and we heard that you run an election in here.
0:26.0	What?
0:27.0	Is that not true?
0:28.0	What?
0:29.0	What?
0:30.0	What?
0:31.0	Oh, sit down. Tell us your name, how long you've been incarcerated, and who
0:36.3	you're voting for. My name is Juan Marino Haynes, and I'm editor-in-chief of Solitary Watch.
0:40.9	Erlan, we have known Juan. solitary watch. part of the furniture down at the media lab. Exactly, exactly. And we should say that for a long time he worked at the San Quentin News. Yes. Which is in the media lab. So we saw him every time. We went to work and he loves to chat.
1:05.0	Oh no he'll definitely chop up a conversation quick.
1:07.6	And he was someone we really wanted to talk to for this episode about politics in prison.
1:12.2	Oh yeah because you know one what you call
1:14.6	political junkie. A political junkie. He is definitely a political junkie. I've
1:20.1	been incarcerated 28 years and I'm 67 years old I've voted in or had an opinion about who should be
1:27.3	commander-in-chief every election in my life but this might be the first time that I actually won't vote as a protest.
1:35.8	Well yeah but what do you mean vote because you can't vote in prison so what do you mean vote?
1:39.4	What I mean by vote is we hold mock elections since 2008 at San Quentin State Prison. I was kind of like
1:46.8	on the staff of the very first one that was the Obama election and then after that I kind of picked up the mantle and handled every
1:55.3	presidential election while I was on staff at San Quentin News.
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