In the first part of this episode, we explore the uneven effects of state-supported and state-prescribed COVID responses, focusing on the experiences of someone who was arrested and incarcerated beginning in the summer of 2020. His narrative reflects those of the many people inside and outside prison walls who bear the impacts of COVID’s precarity. In the second part, we ask anti-carceral organizer Io Brooks about how the forced movement of people within and among spaces of incarceration has shaped-and been shaped by–the pandemic.

Music: dex digi (Dexter Thomas)

Intro: Piano Ruff Stilt Lodrum a

Transition Music: Africa Again Lodrum a

Interlude: Lofi Ting a

Outro: dream seq2.mp3 a