Prison Radio Show

This show featured audio recorded at Montreal's Prisoner Justice Day event. Speakers included Johanne Wendy Bariteau, the event MC, Sherri Pranteau, Fallon, Guadalupe, and Donald. The speakers shared their personal stories and struggles with the prison industrial complex, including the ways it overlaps with colonialism and the border regime. There is strong language, mention of sexual violence and...

This is our special live show from August 10, 2021. It featured two live interviews with Fallon and Johanne Wendy Bariteau who were both about to give speeches at Montreal's Prisoner Justice Day event. It also featured audio from the inside from Rain and Sheldon talking about Prisoner Justice Day. The audio quality is all over the place, including a serious echo on the microphone towards the end o...

This is audio from prisoners gathered for Montreal's Prisoner Justice Day Vigil 2021. This audio is being posted for the purposes of allowing people who attend the vigil to listen to this audio. If you would like to listen to this audio in the context of our special live PJD broadcast, you are welcome to wait and listen once we post that broadcast on Thursday August 12.

This show features an interview with James. James is a prisoner, currently serving a life sentence on parole  and a member of the Toronto Prisoner Rights Project. In this interview, James talks about his experiences in grassroots organizing, life on parole, surviving trauma, decades spent inside and much more. He talks about coping with the loss and isolation that comes with time inside, and the i...

This show features an interview with Safiyah Husein. She is a lawyer and senior policy analyst with the John Howard Society of Ontario. We discuss the work she is doing to change Canada's record suspension system to remove obstacles to finding and securing steady employment. We also have a new piece from Muti Ajamu-Osagboro who is currently incarcerated in Pennsylvania. Muti was sentenced to life...

Show features a long news section, including audio from a commemoration for Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a Black and Indigenous woman who was killed by police in Toronto in May 2020. The feature interview was with Alessandro Stella talking about recent arrests of Italian political refugees in France, including ex-members of the armed struggle group the Red Brigades. The arrestees are facing extraditio...

This episode showcases some events from the life of Dacajeweiah, also known as Splitting the Sky, who was a Kanienʼkehá꞉ka man who spent time in prison and was in Attica during the uprising in 1971. He was subsequently released and participated in a number of land defense struggles, including the struggle for Ganienkeh and prisoner support for those arrested in the Gustafsen Lake standoff. His sto...

This show featured lots of news and music as well as audio from Cory Cardinal, who was still incarcerated at the time but has since been released. Cardinal talked to us about the hunger strikes he participated in over the winter as well as the situation more broadly facing Indigenous prisoners like himself. We also aired audio from a prisoner who Cory introduced us to -- Pablo talked to us about t...

This show features a long interview with Margrit Shiller, author of the recently translated book "Remembering the Armed Struggle" about her time in the Red Army Faction, an armed struggle group in Germany that was active between 1970 and 1998. Shiller was involved in the group between 1971 and 1977 and spent most of those years in prison in Germany. In the interview, she talks to us about the poli...

This was our annual funding drive show! If you want to donate to the station that keeps us on air, all the info is in the episode! The show also featured activists from Anti-Carceral Group, Black Lives Matter, and Solidarity Across Borders speaking outside the Laval Migrant Prison on March 20th for the Free Them All National Day of Action. Last, but not least, a prisoner named Christophe shares hi...

Happy Black History Month! Every year on Prison Radio Show we celebrate black history month. Today we remember black Canadians who have been killed by police and in prison.  We shine light on several incredible Black women including the Honourable Jean Augustine who did many great things and notably worked to have Black History Month officially recognized in so called Canada. Our feature  intervie...

This show features an interview with our inside correspondent Muti Ajamu Osagboro and his fiancée Raqueeb Bey. They talked to us about their relationship across prison walls, including how they met and the challenges they have faced in the pandemic. They also talked to us about their activism and how it brought them together.

In this interview, we talked to Abby Stadnyk, a journalist with the Perilous Chronicle. She talked to us about resistance in Saskachewan jails in a context where there were mounting cases of Covid19 in the prisons. From late November 2020 until the last week of January 2021, prisoners wrote letters, went on hunger strike, and rioted against the lockdown conditions imposed by jail administrations....

This show features an interview with Cedar, about their recently published article "After a winter of blockades: updates on criminal charges from #ShutDownCanada" as well as a new piece from Muti Ajamu Osagboro about COVID-19 in Pennsylvania State prisons, and part of an interview with Sherri Maier of Beyond Prison Walls Canada about what's been going on in the prisons in Saskatchewan (re-broadcas...

This show features audio from inside correspondent Muti Ajamu-Osagboro, who is incarcerated in Frackville State Prison in Pennsylvania. Muti talks about experiencing the pandemic in prison. We also caught up with two members of the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement's New York City chapter. They talked to us about the George Floyd Uprising, the pandemic, and their resolutions for 2021.

Join PRS in imagining abolition by creating communities where we care for and keep one another safe in a world liberated from cages, police, and institutional state violence in part-two of our Toronto Prisoners' Rights Project interview pre-recorded and aired on Thursday, December 10, 2020 on ckut.ca, 90.3 fm. TPRP  organizers, Rajean and Rosa get to the heart of their critical work supporting tho...

Pre-recorded and aired on ckut.ca on Friday, November 27, 2020. Part-one of a two part interview the Toronto Prisoners' Rights Project. PRS collective member Yasmeen speaks with TPRP organizers, Rajean and Rosa getting to the heart of TPRP's critical work to support those on the inside with a jail and info hotline to a prisoner support fund and of the hard collective work of imagining abolition re...

This special live show was a collaborative effort between us and the Prison Radio show in Kingston, Ontario on CFRC. We interviewed Sheena about the second wave of Covid19 in canadian prisons. We shared some news, including news about Jalil Muntaqim who has been interviewed on CKUT's PRS and is now out of prison. To find out more about him and to support him, check out freejalil.com.

This pre-recorded show aired on Sept 25, 2020. It featured an interview with Jonathan Marchand, a disability rights activist who has been fighting for the closure of long term care homes (CHSLDs) in QC. We talked to Jonathan about abolition of long term care institutions, self determination for people with disabilities, direct action, and the project Coop Assist. To learn more about Jonathan, you...

This special live show was recorded for Prisoner Justice Day. It featured audio from an event that was happening simultaneously in so-called Montreal, from Sheri Pranteau, an indigenous woman who has served time in prison. It also featured pre-recorded audio from a prisoner with suggestions for new tactics to try for PJD next year. We rounded out the show with a live interview with someone who was...

Featuring Ann, an anarchist who was arrested in the 1980s for participating in an underground guerilla group called Direct Action. She ended up getting a life sentence and doing 7 years in Kingston's Prison for Women (P4W), which is now closed. She also got her parole revoked on two separate occasions, once in 2006 and once in 2012. Ann talked to us about the differences between doing time in the...

Marie Beemans, an outside activist and organizer who has been supporting prisoners since she was a teenager. Marie was particularly active with a group called the Office des Droits des Detenues (or ODD), which was affiliated with the Ligue des Droits in Quebec until they were kicked out of the Ligue des Droits for supporting prisoners in the aftermath of the 1982 riot in Archambault Penitentiary....

Interview with Gene, who started doing time in canadian prisons in 1972. Gene talks to us about the early days of PJD on the inside and the role that inmates committees and outside support played in prisoner resistance in the 70s and 80s. He talks a bit about protective custody or PC, and how changes to protective custody policies in federal prisons undermined solidarity.

This episode is a long interview with Mariam Gafforio, an anarchist and conflict facilitator and conflict system builder in the so-called US. Mariam talked to us about her theories of conflict, what conflict systems are, and much else! This is the third interview in our series on conflict, so check out past episodes with Kira and Miatta for more information on conflict mediation, facilitation etc.

This podcast was a mini series that was published last summer about the history of Prisoner Justice Day. This is the second episode of that mini series, which no longer exists anywhere else on the internet and so we are republishing it here. This episode is an interview with Papi, who spent 29 years in prison in canada. He talks about conditions on the inside in the 1970s and 1980s, including what...