Revisiting “Camp Grace”

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4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Next up in our “sleeper hits” series, our editor Amy listens back to “Camp Grace,” a 2021 episode that she had started producing until she was sidelined by COVID. In it, we follow a group of kids to Salinas Valley State Prison to spend two days with their dads, whom they hadn’t seen in years. Through music, crafts, and games, the idea behind Camp Grace is to put aside prison personas and reconnect with fatherhood. But relationships strained by incarceration can be hard to fix.

Big thanks to the team at The Place 4 Grace: Karen, Jenny, Candace, Sandra, and Maria.

We also want to thank campers Alex, Geneva, Andrew, Angel, Gigi, Eli, and Christian, and their dads, Jose, Peter, Frankie, Gilbert, Gabriel, and Ramon, as well as Angelica and Theresa, for talking with us. Thanks also to Alma, Jen, Adriana, Officer Muros, Officer Guevara, and Warden Atchley at Salinas Valley State Prison.

This episode was scored with music by Antwan Williams and Rhashiyd Zinnamon.

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0:00.0	Okay, we're on.
0:04.2	Hello, Amy.
0:04.8	Hello, Bruce.
0:06.7	Amy, you've been Ear Hustle's editor for folks who don't know since 2020, 2020.
0:13.2	2020.
0:13.9	Yeah.
0:14.3	Yeah.
0:15.9	March 2020.
0:17.9	Does that sound familiar?
0:19.1	The most significant thing about that date is my beginning.
0:21.4	When most people think of March 2020.
0:23.1	Exactly.
0:24.8	You are the editor, but you are also a lot of other things among them a producer,
0:29.3	which means you like find stories and then are on the ground when we do those stories
0:33.1	and all of those things.
0:34.7	Many of the things you do too, Bruce.
0:36.6	Yeah, it's a small team.
0:39.8	So I feel like we all get to do all the stuff.
0:40.8	Yeah, which is cool.
0:41.0	Yeah.
0:41.5	Which is... No, that's something I very much like about this job.
0:43.7	Totally.
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