Ear Hustle Extra: Summer Listening

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 others to check out over the summer.

Thanks to Steve Champion, Ceasar McDowell and Alesha Monteiro for appearing in this episode.

This episode was scored with music by Antwan Williams and David Jassy.

Thanks to Lt. Sam Robinson and Acting Warden Ron Broomfield for their support of the show.

You can download the episode here, and find a transcript for “Summer Listening” here.

Podcasts mentioned in this episode

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

Other podcasts about incarceration and life in prison

Caught, stories about the juvenile justice system

Decarceration Nation, about mass incarceration and the people impacted by it

In The Dark Season 2, the investigative podcast looks at the case of a man tried six times for the same crime 

Pelican Bay UNLOCKED, produced by people incarcerated at Pelican Bay State Prison in California 

Prison Bag, a woman tells her story of having a husband in prison

“Prison Diaries” from Radio Diaries, first-person stories about life in prison

70 Million, a podcast about criminal justice reform

Supervision, a four-part series about life on parole 

Unprisoned, a podcast and radio show about the human impacts of incarceration

With(in) Podcast, a collaboration between the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative and the Colorado Department of Corrections

Mass Exoneration, a podcast about people who were convicted of crimes they didn’t commit, produced in collaboration with the New England Innocence Project