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Saber-Toothed Cat
Season 11 Episode 3
What’s the difference between an over-under and a lower-lower? How many pairs of underwear do you get in prison? And how long does a bar of soap last…
3 years ago
OGs Got Hella Tricks
Season 11 Episode 2
San Quentin’s population is changing, and a lot of the old ways are dying out. But some prison OGs don’t want to let go of the past.
Big thanks to Li…
3 years ago
Dream On
Season 11 Episode 1
When you’re incarcerated, are your dreams set outside prison walls? Or out on the prison yard? Are they a comforting space to escape to? Or a painful…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ear Hustle Extra: Welcome Home, New York
Season 10 Episode 10
After 22 years in prison, our inside colleague Rahsaan “New York” Thomas is now a free man. We meet him at the gates of San Quentin, and tag along fo…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ear Hustle Extra: Sam Quentin
Season 10 Episode 9
Lieutenant Sam Robinson has been with Ear Hustle since day one. As he retires from his post as Public Information Officer at San Quentin, we pay trib…
3 years, 2 months ago
Karen
Season 10 Episode 8
While she was in jail awaiting her sentence, Karen was housed with a pregnant cellie on the verge of giving birth. At the time, the experience barely…
3 years, 3 months ago
What’s Dangerous About Trees
Season 10 Episode 7
If you have to serve prison time, Norway is the place to do it … at least that’s what we’d heard. Incarcerated people in Norway wear their own clothe…
3 years, 4 months ago
Wishful Thinking
Season 10 Episode 6
The Ear Hustle music episode returns! We catch up with some guys at San Quentin who are longing for love, and then, for the first time ever, we toss …
3 years, 4 months ago
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, 4 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, 5 months ago