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The Whole Night Was for Nothing
Season 18 Episode 2
Two people are connected by a terrible crime, committed over 30 years ago. What do we owe the people we hurt, and how long does that debt endure?
Su…
7 hours ago
On the Margins
Season 18 Episode 1
A psychic. An RV park. A one-room post office. San Quentin's prison gets all the headlines, but just over the wall, there's a whole other world to ex…
2 weeks ago
CIW: The Magazine, Issue One
Rumors of a prison swimming pool, losing cherished memories to new technology, the right to housing in prison, and different ways of looking at a let…
1 month ago
Ear Hustle Presents: The Science of Happiness
We're sharing an episode from another PRX podcast, The Science of Happiness, which explores what science can tell us about living a happier, more mea…
1 month, 1 week ago
Revisiting "Last Memory: Linda"
Nigel reexamines the fourth episode in our Last Memory series, from December of 2024. Linda’s mom brought her to a Catholic Mass because she had a se…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Behind the Scenes: “Bag of Skittles” and “Over and Over and Over and Over”
Could telling Sadiq and Demarion’s story actually make things worse between them? And were we right to be concerned that SQ's public information offi…
2 months, 1 week ago
Revisiting "Getting a Date"
Earlonne relistens to the final episode of Ear Hustle’s first season, about one official and one unofficial way to get out of prison.
Steve, Danny, P…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Over and Over and Over and Over
Season 17 Episode 8
Even though they share a difficult past, Sadiq and Demarion had never met in person, and it was probably best that it stayed that way. When an event …
3 months ago
Tricks of the Trade
Season 17 Episode 7
At North Kern State Prison, incarcerated people are being trained to do what staff cannot: provide peer support, whether it’s with addiction, cellie …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Bag of Skittles
Season 17 Episode 6
From obsessive body-building to extreme tattoos and other transformations: stories about the ways people in prison think about and try to change thei…
4 months ago