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Fences
Season 10 Episode 5
From 180s and 270s to “just one long-ass hallway,” different kinds of prison architecture leave different marks on the people who live there. In this…
3 years, 10 months ago
Pockets
Season 10 Episode 4
Prisons are built with one thing in mind: surveillance. The architecture is designed to assert control and diminish privacy. But even in these spaces…
3 years, 10 months ago
Some Darkness and Some Light
Season 10 Episode 3
Stories from our first-ever international reporting trip! From the nightclubs of Oslo, to Norway’s first in-prison Pride parade, to an incarcerated D…
3 years, 11 months ago
Actual/Factual
Season 10 Episode 2
Sam Brown spent 24 years in prison not just denying his crime, but lying about it, over and over again. Finally, he decided to come clean. Would the …
3 years, 11 months ago
The Five Senses
Season 10 Episode 1
Life in prison can mess with your senses. There are smells you can’t unsmell, and sounds you long to hear. Some tastes you forget about entirely, and…
4 years ago
Ear Hustle Presents: Uncuffed
Season 9 Episode 10
A special episode from Uncuffed: During the COVID lockdown at San Quentin, Steve and Darren both got unexpected letters that changed their lives.
Thi…
4 years ago
Ear Hustle Presents: My Mother Made Me
Season 9 Episode 9
The Ear Hustle team is hard at work on our next season, which launches September 7! In the meantime, we’d like to tell you about a new podcast, hoste…
4 years, 1 month ago
Last Memory: Ryan and Earlonne
Season 9 Episode 8
The jig was up for Ryan, so he told police he’d turn himself in. His mom had one request: a final family meal at Applebee’s. Plus, Earlonne and Nigel…
4 years, 3 months ago
Last Memory: Michael
Season 9 Episode 7
The day before committing the crime that sent him to prison, Michael stood in a parking lot in Bakersfield, California, and looked up at the sky. Twe…
4 years, 3 months ago
Catch a Kite 7
This season we're flipping the script on our traditional Catch a Kite episodes, exploring questions asked and answered between San Quentin State Pris…
4 years, 4 months ago