In this week’s episode, we air the second part of a conversation between Jok Huerta from Focus Initiatives and Rodney Jones, known as Big R. Big R was a witness to the beating that sparked the the 1985 Pendleton prison uprising here in Indiana.

This conversation is part of a series put on by IDOC Watch and other organizations, including Focus Initiatives, LTD. We encourage you to check out their projects, which focus on inside/outside prisoner and re-entry support.

IDOC Watch has written several articles about the prisoners involved in this uprising and its aftermath, which we will share on our website:

https://www.idocwatch.org/blog-1/2021/9/27/2018-court-order-for-resentencing-of-indiana-political-prisoner-christopher-naeem-trotter

https://www.idocwatch.org/blog-1/2022/1/28/long-term-indiana-political-prisoner-balagoon-speaks-on-the-1985-uprising-at-pendleton-cf-and-his-pending-sentence-modification

We will are more of the conversation next week. In the meantime, you can read about the 1985 uprising in DOWN: Reflections on Prison Resistance in Indiana.