Kite Line is a 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)
353 | Prison by Any Other Name, Part One
This week on Kite Line we air a discussion from 2021, in which we speak with prison abolitionist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law. We share the first part of our discussion on their recent book, Prison by Any Other Name: Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms. The book is an in-depth look at the various “alternatives...