We’re back and yes, we have things to say.
In this return episode of On The Recyard Women’s Prison Podcast, Marci Marie and Toonche sit down to talk about why the podcast is returning now, what’s changed since we last recorded, and what it means to break down prisons and current events through lived experience.

This episode is part catch up, part reset, and part warning. We’re naming the moment, reclaiming our voices, and setting the tone for conversations about incarceration, mental health, policy, and life beyond prison walls. Same lens. Sharper analysis. No filter.

_______________________________________________________________

About the hosts:

Marci Marie is a formerly incarcerated storyteller, organizer, and media creator with a decade of lived experience inside Texas women’s prisons. She serves as Director of Communications at Lioness Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance, and as the Social & Digital Media Coordinator with FICPFM, where she leads narrative strategy rooted in lived experience. Marci brings sharp analysis, personal truth, and a women centered lens to conversations about incarceration, mental health, policy, and current events.

Jennifer “Toonche” Toon is a formerly incarcerated advocate and the Executive Director and co founder of Lioness Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance. Her involvement with the criminal legal system began at age 15 under Texas determinate sentencing laws, resulting in 27 years of system involvement. Toonche brings deep policy insight, lived experience, and narrative power shaped by her work in advocacy, media, and justice reform.

Keywords: women’s prison podcast, formerly incarcerated women, Texas prisons, incarceration and current events, lived experience commentary, prison policy, mental health and incarceration, narrative change, women impacted by incarceration