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Jul 2020
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Ear Hustle Extra: Summer Listening

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
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Ear Hustle will be back with new episodes starting September 9. In the meantime, we talk with people experiencing the COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin and other California prisons, firsthand. Plus, we’re not the only podcast sharing stories and highlighting voices from prison and post-incarceration. Here are a few other shows to check out over the summer:

The Secret Life of Prisons, from the Prison Radio Association in the UK

Featured in this episode: “The Arrival”

Birds Eye View, made by women in the Darwin Correctional Centre in Australia

Featured in this episode: “Making HERstory”

Uncuffed, produced by men incarcerated at Solano and San Quentin state prisons in California for KALW

Featured in this episode: “Sky Boii” and “Maserati-E”

More songs by Remus Sam Langi at the bottom of the page here

Life on the Outside, produced by Lucy Copp

Featured in this episode: “Mother California”

Snap Judgment’s story “The Officer”

Voices of San Quentin on Instagram @VoicesofSanQuentin

Thanks to Lt. Sam Robinson and Acting Warden Ron Broomfield for their support. Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Find a full list of episode credits, and a list of more shows about life inside and post-incarceration, at earhustlesq.com.

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