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Why'd You Do It: I snuck my incarcerated boyfriend out of prison in a dog crate
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, hear the story of Toby Dorr. She was on the run with John Manard for 12 days after she helped sneak him out of prison...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million – Forget Reform, They Want Abolition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mike Milton at the Freedom Community Center in St. Louis, MO., Credit: Joe Martinez
This week on Making Contact we're taking you to St. Louis, Missouri with the Podcast 70 Million to learn about the city's ongoing efforts to re-ima...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
What if a different part of the women’s movement had gained more attention?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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(August 24th, 2022 release date) In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipelin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Corrections in Ink
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Keri Blakinger
Oftentimes we can look at someone who is seemingly good at anything they do, and admire their talents. Perhaps envy them. Or, maybe even feel a twi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million: How Bail Shackles Women of Color
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Tamiki Banks’ life was turned upside down when her husband was arrested, leaving her the sole breadwinner and caregiver to their twins. More than t...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Pushout
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Aug 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pony
From: Ibby Caputo
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is audio of a formerly incarcerated woman reading a letter she wrote while in prison.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:13
Akkara's Mother's Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Nigel Akkara
This Mother’s Day Sandip remembers Nigel Akkara, who told him about his two mothers.

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
California Innocence Project: A Woman Returns After 7 Years - episode 2
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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An innocent woman discusses re-entering her world outside of prison. She addresses the painful time spent away from her children and new possibilit...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 04:56
Bresha Meadows, Domestic Violence, and the State
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we examine the intersections between domestic violence, along with other forms of gendered violence, the courts, and the prison system. ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
Families and Prison: Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week’s episode is the second installment of our Families and Prison series. We speak with April, a formerly-incarcerated mother who works with...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:39
Families and Prison: Part One
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week is our first installment of a series covering the impact of prison on families. This episode focuses on Wendi Middleton, who works in the...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:22
Episode 3: Lost weekends
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: Betty Peters, known as Mama Betty, shuttles jail visitors along the last mile of the journey. , Credit: George Lavender
Thousands of Los Angeles County prisoners are housed in Pitchess Detention center. For visitors, the journey to the jail can take all day. The clos...

Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 3
SOUTHWEST OF SALEM -- The San Antonio Four and filmmakers Deborah S. Esquenazi and Sam Tabet
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Anna Vasquez, Deborah S. Esquenazi, Kristie Mayhugh, Cassandra Rivera, Sam Tabet, Elizabeth Ramirez, Credit: Andrea Chase
The San Antonio Four talk hope, faith, and waking up to freedom.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:57
Life of the Law Shorts #23 - Of Prison and Pregnancy
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of inc...

Bought by KRZA, XRAY.fm, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Law #23 - Of Prison and Pregnancy
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: A woman prisoner in a cell at the Women’s House of Detention, a women’s-only prison run by the Women’s Prison Association, in the 1940s. , Credit: Women's Prison Association
The United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of inc...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:11
  • Purchases: 3
Our Bodies, Our Stories: Reproductive Health Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Woman in Handcuffs, Credit: Thisisbossi
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:00