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Serving Time 9-5: Diaries from Prison Guards

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Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Sergeant Furman Camel spent 27 years in a North Carolina Prison. That's as many years as Nelson Mandela spent behind bars. But Camel did his time, as likes to say, in 8 hour shifts.

"I wear this uniform with pride. Everyday that I come in here I'm creased down. My shoes are shined. And I smell good. The uniform is 90% of the job. Looking the part."

In this episode we bring you audio diaries from the prison guards who work at Polk Youth Institution.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Radio Diaries and this is Nellie Gillis with producers

0:05.2

Elisa Scarsay and Micah Hazel. Hey, this is our producer takeover. Sorry Joe.

0:10.1

Sorry Joe. Before we start today's show we wanted to let you know that right now is Radio Topia's annual fundraiser.

0:16.0

And for the occasion, our team wanted to come and tell you a few of the favorite things that we've heard from the network recently.

0:22.0

Micah, you go first.

0:24.0

So I recently listened to the Stoop episode,

0:27.0

Don't Call Me Ante, which is basically breaking down

0:30.0

like the word Ante, I use it all the time,

0:32.0

a lot of people of color use it all the time it's like a very endearing term and

0:37.6

This episode really just kind of broke down the ways in which it's actually pretty problematic.

0:45.0

I think something the show just really does well is it takes these just everyday things

0:49.3

in my life or everyday things in black culture and it kind of like flips them on the head a little

0:53.7

bit while also just feeling like a very casual like conversation between friends.

0:58.8

Awesome. How many people in your life do you call auntie. Oh my God like pretty much anyone who's

1:05.0

nice to me. How about you, Elisa? So I recently loved this episode. It was a

1:11.7

collaboration between two of my favorite

1:13.6

radiotopious shows, Articles of Interest and Wait for it. They did this story

1:17.6

about plus-size clothes that was the perfect combo of personal stories and

1:22.0

really fascinating fashion history that I had never thought

1:24.5

about.

1:25.5

I'll never be able to look at those shoulder cutouts on t-shirts the same way.

1:29.1

I heard that episode too and I definitely have shoulder cut-out shirts that I don't know whether I'll ever wear again.

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