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Mar 2023
45m 42s

Dream On

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
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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 reminder of what you no longer have? From lucid dreams to wet dreams to dreams of freedom, we ask how incarceration changes what you see when you sleep.

Big thanks to Guim'Mara Berry and Warden Ron Broomfield for their support of the show.

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