Kite Line is a weekly radio program and podcast that focuses on issues in the prison system and beyond.
On the inside, a message is called a kite: whispered words, a note passed hand to hand, or a request submitted to guards for medical care.
Illicit or not, sending a kite means trusting that other people will pass it farther along, until it reaches its destination.
We make this show to pass along words, across the prison walls.
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Kite Line is a radio program and podcast broadcasting from Bloomington, IN through our local community radio station, WFHB. (wfhb.org)
In Southern Indiana, you can hear us at:
- 91.3 FM South-Central Indiana
- 98.1 FM Bloomington
- 100.7 FM Nashville/Brown County
- 106.3 FM Ellettsville
- Carbondale, Illinois (On WDBX)
- Louisville, Kentucky (On Forward Radio)
- New Orleans, Louisiana (On WHIV)
- Richmond, Indiana (On WECI)
- Minneapolis, Minnesota (On KRSM)
- Columbus, Ohio (On WCRS)
341 | Rikers is Deadlier Than Ever
Today’s episode highlights the campaign to close Rikers jail in New York and continues our conversation with Anne Gray Fischer about the intertwined stories of policing, the surveillance of women’s bodies, and the creation of the racialized American ghetto. Both Sy, an organizer against Rikers, and Gray Fischer, extend the histories of control and racial...