Signing Off: May 26, 2016: 10am - 11am

In this, the final Prison Voices Project broadcast, a reflection on six years on air. During that time, PVP has been a key voice in the local struggle to end mass incarceration, and our guest and list...

Ashley Nellis: Apr 28, 2016: 10am - 11am

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...

Samuel Harrell : Mar 24, 2016: 10am - 11am

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...

Ronald Robertson: Feb 25, 2016: 10am - 11am

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...

The Best of 2015: Jan 28, 2016: 10am - 11am

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. Produced by...

Judah Schept, James Kilgore, Geri Wilmott: Dec 24, 2015: 10am - 11am

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...

Mass Criminalization: Nov 26, 2015: 10am - 11am

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...

Bobby Lane, Bryan Stevenson: Nov 12, 2015: 10am - 11am

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...

Molly Stinchfield, Dee Dee Halleck, Robert Hayden, Edgar Barens: Oct 22, 2015: 10am - 11am

This broadcast focuses on the Greene County Council on the Arts exhibit, Beyond the Bars, currently on view in Catskill, N.Y. The exhibit focuses on incarceration, justice, and the transformative powe...

Voices UnBroken: Oct 08, 2015: 10am - 11am

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...

Vivian Nixon: Sep 24, 2015: 10am - 11am

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...

Josh Gravens, Jill Levenson: Sep 10, 2015: 10am - 11am

This broadcast focuses on residency restrictions faced by individuals following conviction of a sex offense. The conversation focuses on a new policy in New York state which authorizes the Department...

Black August: Aug 27, 2015: 10am - 11am

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....

20150813: Aug 13, 2015: 10am - 11am

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....

Danielle Wallace, Megan Comfort, Gina Clayton: Jul 23, 2015: 10am - 11am

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...

Jeff Hall, Khalil Cumberbatch: Jul 09, 2015: 10am - 11am

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...

Margaret diZerega: Jun 25, 2015: 10am - 11am

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...

Salvatore Engel-Dimauro, Jalal Akbar Sabur: Jun 11, 2015: 10am - 11am

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: Hip-Hop Behind Bars in Venezuela: May 28, 2015: 10am - 11am

The show explores the experiences of incarcerated hip-hop artists in the open-regime prisons of San Felipe and Yare 1 in Venezuela. These prisons are internally run and the guards' duties consist only...

Prison Voices Project: 20150514: May 14, 2015: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

Update and re-broadcast of a previous show which focused on the felony-murder rule, and why Pascual Carpenter was incarcerated 23 years. Carpenter has just been released. This episode features an inte...

Prison Voices Project: Mishi Faruquee, Jonathan Gradess, Khalil Cumberbatch: Mar 26, 2015: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

Update on some of the protests around the police killings of Mike Brown, Eric Garner and others. The show will highlight related stories and discussions around the killings, connect the plot of politi...

Prison Voices Project: Assata Shakur: Nov 13, 2014: 10am - 11am

A discussion of the legacy of Assata Shakur. The show will feature interviews with SUNY New Paltz student members of Students of Mass Incarceration. Plus an excerpt from a letter and other writings by...

Prison Voices Project: Parole: Oct 09, 2014: 10am - 11am

Discussing the issues of parole, a live call-in will highlight the case and experience of an African American currently serving a sentence within the Pennsylvania State Correctional System. Coverage...

Prison Voices Project: Ralph Baker, Jared Ball: Aug 28, 2014: 10am - 11am

An interview with Ralph Baker, a blind, African American photographer. Baker talks about his legal struggles, his claims to ownership of two Brooklyn buildings and his thoughts on current solitary con...

Prison Voices Project: The Power of Language: Jul 24, 2014: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

The Prison Poetry Workshop is a public radio show, hosted by Rend Smith. The show travels across the country exploring the history and stories connected to the prison poetry literary form. In this epi...

Prison Voices Project: Carolyn Polikarpus, Scott Thomas: Jun 12, 2014: 10am - 11am

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 Columbia County. Plus...

Prison Voices Project: Hospice Care at Coxsackie Prison and the New York Against Mass Incarceration Rally: May 22, 2014: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

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 will also feature highlights from the press c...

Prison Voices Project: Odell Winfield, Robert Hayden.: Apr 24, 2014: 10am - 11am

A conversation with locals Odell Winfield from End the New Jim Crow Action Network and gospel singer, Robert Hayden. Hosted by Cory-Fischer Hoffman.

Prison Voices Project: Mujahid Farid, Jamie Fellner, Mark Mauer, Edward Hammock: Apr 10, 2014: 10am - 11am

"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: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

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...

Letter-Writing Night to Incarcerated Listeners: Feb 20, 2014: 7pm - 9pm

Did you know WGXC 90.7-FM has listeners in some of the seven correctional facilities located within Greene and Columbia counties? Please join the Prison Voices Project in a volunteer letter-writing ni...

Prison Voices Project: The Convict Lease System: Feb 13, 2014: 10am - 11am

A black history month special program. Following the emancipation of African Americans from slavery, the convict leasing system allowed white plantation owners to "lease" prisoners from the state and...

Prison Voices Project: Fight for Parole Justice: Jan 23, 2014: 10am - 11am

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: The Best of 2013: Jan 09, 2014: 10am - 11am

Highlights of original local programming produced by the "Prison Voices Project" in 2013. The show will feature: Coverage of the local effort to re-route the school to prison pipeline, a vigil to hono...

Prison Voices Project: Leonard Peltier: Nov 28, 2013: 10am - 11am

The program will feature an exclusive interview with David Hill, Executive Director of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. Peltier has been imprisoned since 1976, despite having prove...

Letter-Writing Night to Incarcerated Listeners: Oct 30, 2013: 7pm - 9pm

Did you know WGXC 90.7-FM has listeners in some of the seven correctional facilities located within Greene and Columbia counties? Please join the Prison Voices Project in a volunteer letter-writing ni...

Prison Voices Project: Alan Frisbee, William Lawrence, Carolyn Polikarpus, Lynn Rothenberg: Sep 26, 2013: 10am - 11am

In this episode of Prison Voices Project learn more about the Alternatives to Incarceration program in Greene County from Probation Director Alan Frisbee and William Lawrence, Chairman of the Greene C...

Prison Voices Project: Health and Yoga in Prison: Sep 12, 2013: 10am - 11am

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: 10am - 11am

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...