Prison Radio Show

Happy Black History Month! Every year on Prison Radio Show we celebrate black history month. Today we remember black Canadians who have been killed by police and in prison. We shine light on several incredible Black women including the Honourable Jean Augustine who did many great things and notably worked to have Black History Month officially recognized in so called Canada. Our feature interview is with Ayo Ogunremi, a McGill student who is Vice-President of External Affairs of Student Society McGill University SSMU, who worked to get an abolitionist motion passed at McGill. We discuss McGill's newly adopted 'position on institutions of public safety' and the possibility of other campuses following suit with Ayo.

This show features an interview with our inside correspondent Muti Ajamu Osagboro and his fiancée Raqueeb Bey. They talked to us about their relationship across prison walls, including how they met and the challenges they have faced in the pandemic. They also talked to us about their activism and how it brought them together.

In this interview, we talked to Abby Stadnyk, a journalist with the Perilous Chronicle. She talked to us about resistance in Saskachewan jails in a context where there were mounting cases of Covid19 in the prisons. From late November 2020 until the last week of January 2021, prisoners wrote letters, went on hunger strike, and rioted against the lockdown conditions imposed by jail administrations. Solidarity actions on the outside supported the prisoners' actions, but in the end, the government did nothing. Here's the whole story.

This show features an interview with Cedar, about their recently published article "After a winter of blockades: updates on criminal charges from #ShutDownCanada" as well as a new piece from Muti Ajamu Osagboro about COVID-19 in Pennsylvania State prisons, and part of an interview with Sherri Maier of Beyond Prison Walls Canada about what's been going on in the prisons in Saskatchewan (re-broadcast from CFRC prison radio in so-called Kingston).

This show features audio from inside correspondent Muti Ajamu-Osagboro, who is incarcerated in Frackville State Prison in Pennsylvania. Muti talks about experiencing the pandemic in prison. We also caught up with two members of the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement's New York City chapter. They talked to us about the George Floyd Uprising, the pandemic, and their resolutions for 2021.

Join PRS in imagining abolition by creating communities where we care for and keep one another safe in a world liberated from cages, police, and institutional state violence in part-two of our Toronto Prisoners' Rights Project interview pre-recorded and aired on Thursday, December 10, 2020 on ckut.ca, 90.3 fm. TPRP organizers, Rajean and Rosa get to the heart of their critical work supporting those on the inside with a jail hotline, a prisoner support fund and about the hard collective work of fostering real and practical ways to fight against the prison industrial complex and police by creating networks of self and community care and reflecting on black and Indigenous freedom and liberation movements like the Black Panthers, Black Lives Matter TO, the Bear Clan Patrol, as well as the racist white supremacist settler-colonial roots of policing in so called Canada, and the growing solidarity between black and Indigenous abolition movements regionally and across the continent. TPRP is a coalition of researchers, law students, front-line workers and people with lived experience engaged in public education and mutual aid work to shed light on the harms caused by incarceration, and connect incarcerated and recently released populations with legal, community, financial, and health supports.

Pre-recorded and aired on ckut.ca on Friday, November 27, 2020. Part-one of a two part interview the Toronto Prisoners' Rights Project. PRS collective member Yasmeen speaks with TPRP organizers, Rajean and Rosa getting to the heart of TPRP's critical work to support those on the inside with a jail and info hotline to a prisoner support fund and of the hard collective work of imagining abolition real and practical ways and to fight against the prison industrial complex and police by creating networks of self and community care. TPRP is a coalition of researchers, law students, front-line workers and people with lived experience engaged in public education and mutual aid work to shed light on the harms caused by incarceration, and connect incarcerated and recently released populations with legal, community, financial, and health supports. News featured on this episode includes: defund the police campaign updates in Hamilton and Ottawa, increases to Ottawa police budget after violent crackdown on protestors, 337 confirmed covid-19 cases in October 2020 linked to Canadian carceral institutions, top ten reasons why the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project CPEP and #NOPE | No On Prison Expansion stands in solidarity with local residents fighting to stop the construction of a new provincial prison in Kemptville. Join PRS in imagining abolition by creating communities where we care for and keep one another safe in a world liberated from cages, police, and institutional state violence in part-two of our TPRP interview set to air on Thursday, December 10, 2020.

This special live show was a collaborative effort between us and the Prison Radio show in Kingston, Ontario on CFRC. We interviewed Sheena about the second wave of Covid19 in canadian prisons. We shared some news, including news about Jalil Muntaqim who has been interviewed on CKUT's PRS and is now out of prison. To find out more about him and to support him, check out freejalil.com.

This pre-recorded show aired on Sept 25, 2020. It featured an interview with Jonathan Marchand, a disability rights activist who has been fighting for the closure of long term care homes (CHSLDs) in QC. We talked to Jonathan about abolition of long term care institutions, self determination for people with disabilities, direct action, and the project Coop Assist. To learn more about Jonathan, you can follow him on twitter @jmarchand or visit Coop Assist's site at coopassist.ca.

This special live show was recorded for Prisoner Justice Day. It featured audio from an event that was happening simultaneously in so-called Montreal, from Sheri Pranteau, an indigenous woman who has served time in prison. It also featured pre-recorded audio from a prisoner with suggestions for new tactics to try for PJD next year. We rounded out the show with a live interview with someone who was at the Montreal event and music from Pete Collins, a prisoner and organizer who died inside in 2015.