Prison Voices Project: Ashley Nellis: Apr 28, 2016

This broadcast features “Life Sentences in America," by Ashley Nellis, senior research analyst with The Sentencing Project. The lecture on the connections between life sentences and mass incarceration...

Prison Voices Project: Samuel Harrell : Mar 24, 2016

This broadcast focuses on the death of 30-year-old Samuel Harrell while in state custody, in April 2015. Farrell was killed while housed at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, Dutchess Co. H...

Prison Voices Project: Ronald Robertson: Feb 25, 2016

In this broadcast, an interview with Ronald Robertson, Executive Director of Brownsville Think Tank Matters, Inc. Robertson was incarcerated for more 26 years at numerous facilities throughout New Yor...

Prison Voices Project: The Best of 2015: Jan 28, 2016

Special date. Highlights and takeaways from the best of "Prison Voices Project" in 2015. Plus musical selections from Samm Henshaw, Pharaoh Sanders , Ibeyi, Olu Dara and Gary Clarke, Jr.

Prison Voices Project: Judah Schept, James Kilgore, Geri Wilmott: Dec 24, 2015

This broadcast focuses on a local effort to oppose the building of a new jail in Dutchess County. Interviews with Judah Schept, Associate Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky...

Prison Voices Project: Bobby Lane, Bryan Stevenson: Nov 12, 2015

In this broadcast, an interview with Bobby Lane, who runs the Newburgh office of Exodus Transitional Community, a re-entry program. Lane talks about the work of the office, as well as what it takes t...

Prison Voices Project: Molly Stinchfield, Dee Dee Halleck, Robert Hayden, Edgar Barens: Oct 22, 2015

This broadcast focuses on the Greene County Council on the Arts exhibit, Beyond the Bars, in Catskill, N.Y. The exhibit focuses on incarceration, justice, and the transformative power of creative expr...

Prison Voices Project: Voices UnBroken: Oct 08, 2015

This broadcast features a re-broadcast of a 2012 show hosted by Rend Smith and produced by Nick Szuberla and Andrew Parsons. Listeners take a journey in search of prison poetry and prisoner poets in N...

Prison Voices Project: Vivian Nixon: Sep 24, 2015

This broadcast will feature an Aug. 15, 2015, interview with Vivian Nixon, Executive Director of College and Community Fellowship, conducted by Rob Sims and originally aired on "On the Count: The Pris...

Prison Voices Project: Black August: Aug 27, 2015

The Prison Voices Project combines music, news, and commentary to create a platform for discussing the impact of mass incarceration and the prison system on the local community and society as a whole....

Prison Voices Project: Danielle Wallace, Megan Comfort, Gina Clayton: Jul 23, 2015

The impact of mass incarceration on the family, including conversations with Danielle Wallace, Assistant Professor of Africana-World Studies at William Paterson University in New Jersey; Megan Comfort...

Prison Voices Project: Jeff Hall, Khalil Cumberbatch: Jul 09, 2015

Featured in this broadcast, the events in Dannemora, New York, where two men escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility. Ultimately one of the men was captured and the other was killed. Guests inc...

Prison Voices Project: Margaret diZerega: Jun 25, 2015

In this broadcast a variety of issues related to mass incarceration are covered, with a special emphasis on the state of New York and the Hudson Valley. Margaret diZerega, Director of the Family Justi...

Prison Voices Project: Salvatore Engel-Dimauro, Jalal Akbar Sabur: Jun 11, 2015

This special WGXC Summer Pledge Drive edition features interviews with Professor Salvatore Engel-Dimauro, with the Department of Geography at SUNY New Paltz, and Jalal Akbar Sabur, of Victory Bus Rid...

Prison Voices Project: 20150514: May 14, 2015

Focus on a college-level course taught through SUNY New Paltz and Brookwood Secure Center in Hudson, N.Y. SUNY New Paltz students who participated in the course and instructors Dr. Karanja Keita Carro...

Prison Voices Project: Beth Richie: Apr 23, 2015

Broadcast of lecture by Dr. Beth Richie recorded live, Apr. 7, at SUNY New Paltz, entitled, 'The Problem with Carceral Feminism.' Richie's work focuses on the ways that race and ethnicity and social...

Prison Voices Project: Pascual Carpenter: Apr 09, 2015

This week's show will include an update and re-broadcast of a previous show which focused on Pascual Carpenter, who has just been released from prison. It focused on the felony-murder rule, and why Pa...

Prison Voices Project: Raise the Age: Mar 26, 2015

This week's show is devoted to a discussion of Governor Cuomo's proposed legislation to raise the age of criminal responsibility in New York. The show will include interviews with Mishi Faruquee of th...

Prison Voices Project: On The Count, Victoria Law: Feb 26, 2015

This special For WGXC Winter Pledge Drive edition features clips from WBAI's "On the Count" and an interview with journalist Victoria Law about the recent African American Policy Forum report on black...

Prison Voices Project: Naomi Murakawa, Tony Platt: Jan 22, 2015

This week's show will feature interviews with Professor Naomi Murakawa of Princeton University and author of the book 'The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America" and Dr. Tony Platt, a v...

Prison Voices Project: Best of 2014: Jan 08, 2015

Highlights and takeaways from 2014, including clips from shows on Parole Justice, the Albany Rally for Prison Justice and a portion of the interview with Deborah Small, Executive Director of Break the...

Prison Voices Project: Ferguson to New York: Dec 11, 2014

Prison Voices Project: Assata Shakur : Nov 13, 2014

This week's show will be a discussion of the legacy of Assata Shakur, in honor of Assata Shakur Liberation day. The show will include interviews with SUNY New Paltz student members of Students of Mas...

Prison Voices Project: Reproductive Rights: Oct 23, 2014

Prison Voices Project: Parole: Oct 09, 2014

Prison Voices Project: Black August, Music in Prisons: Aug 14, 2014

Black August honors the lives of people of African descent in prison. Hear music by and with people in prison, along with interviews with people engaged in this work in prisons across the world.

Prison Voices Project: The Power of Language: Jul 24, 2014

What is the the impact of language on people who are incarcerated or who are returning to communities from lock-up? Cory Greene & Whitney Richards-Calathes presented "Coming Home from Lock Up: Communi...

Prison Voices Project: Mass Criminalization: Jul 10, 2014

Interview with Deborah Small, executive director of Break the Chains, a non-profit policy reform advocacy organization committed to creating awareness and incubating action groups dedicated to promotin...

Prison Voices Project: Prison Poetry Workshop: Jun 26, 2014

Prison Voices Project: Carolyn Polikarpus and Scott Thomas: Jun 12, 2014

Pledge Drive Show. Carolyn Polikarpus and Scott Thomas of Re-entry Columbia will be in the studio to share their ongoing work to provide support and services for those being released from prison in Co...

Prison Voices Project: Hospice Care at Coxasackie Prison and the New York Again Mass Incarceration Rally: May 22, 2014

During the past 40 years the number of men and women behind bars has soared, with many sentenced to serve long mandatory sentences for low-level crimes. As a result, the number of elderly inmates in t...

Prison Voices Project: Rally to End Incarceration Injustice: May 08, 2014

This episode features Cornell West, keynote speaker at the Rally to End Incarceration Injustice, which took place Mon., May 5, in Albany, N.Y. The program also features highlights from the press confe...

Prison Voices Project: Odell Winfield and Robert Hayden. : Apr 24, 2014

Prison Voices Project: Mujahid Farid, Jamie Fellner, Mark Mauer, Edward Hammock: Apr 10, 2014

"If the risk is low, let them go" is the slogan of a RAPP, a new campaign working to Release Aging People in Prison. Lead organizer, Mujahid Farid joined Jamie Fellner, Senior Adviser for the U.S. Pro...

Prison Voices Project: Voices UnBroken: Mar 27, 2014

In this episode of the Prison Poetry Workshop, we go looking for prison poetry and prisoner poets in New York, visiting institutions like Riker’s Island and Attica, to discover poetry as transformatio...

Prison Voices Project: Pascual Carpenter: Mar 13, 2014

Focus on the felony-murder rule, and why Pascual Carpenter has been incarcerated 23 years. This episode features an interview with Deirdre Sinnot, filmmaker of "23 Reasons Why 23 Years is Enough!" The...

Prison Voices Project: 'A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad': Feb 27, 2014

A documentary produced by Chris Moore-Backman for Making Contact. After serving time, the options for finding food, a job and a place to live with a criminal record can become an almost impossible tas...

Prison Voices Project: Convict Leasing: Feb 13, 2014

Prison Voices Project: Fight for Parole Justice: Jan 23, 2014

Milk Not Jails, the Center for Law & Justice, New York State Prisoner Justice Network, Capitol Area Against Mass Incarceration, and NYInsideOUT delivered and installed an exhibit of more than 100 lett...

Prison Voices Project: Best of 2013: Jan 09, 2014

Decolonized Radio Hour: Dec 26, 2013

Prison Voices Project: Parole Hearing : Dec 12, 2013

Prison Voices Project: Leonard Peltier: Nov 28, 2013

Prison Voices Project: Grassroots Leadership: Nov 14, 2013

Prison Voices Project: 20131024: Oct 24, 2013

Prison Voices Project: In Memory of Herman Wallace: Oct 10, 2013

Prison Voices Project: Prison Reentry Taskforce: Sep 26, 2013

Prison Voices Project: Health and Yoga in Prison: Sep 12, 2013

The Yoga Prison Project sends Yoga books and instructors into prisons in New York state and beyond. We will hear from Mahadev Chaitanya and Srinavasan from the Sivananda Yoga Ranch in the Catskills ab...

Prison Voices Project: Felon Disenfranchisement: Aug 22, 2013

Prison Voices Project: Felon Disenfranchisement: Aug 22, 2013

Nearly six million people are denied the right to vote in the United States because of laws that prohibit people with felony convictions from voting. In the state of New York, 89 percent of those who...