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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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Episode Archive

359 | Written from the Inside

December 8, 2023 Kite Line Radio Comments Off on 359 | Written from the Inside

In this episode, we have our monthly round up of prison disturbances, as compiled by Perilous Chronicle. Afterwards, we have a conversation with Sophia Johnson, also known as Candle, who is an anarchist writer who currently serving a sentence in Oregon. In this conversation, she talks about writing in prison, and her ongoing struggle to...

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358 | Block Cop City

November 24, 2023 Kite Line Radio Comments Off on 358 | Block Cop City

Since 2021, a diverse movement in has challenged the construction of Cop City, which is slated to destroy Atlanta’s South River Forest.  The forest is also known by its Muscogee name, Weelaunee.  The movement has created new intersections between abolitionist and environmental politics, since it is defending a forest with important ecological elements for the surrounding...

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357 | Transforming Trauma- Voices from Inside-Out

September 16, 2023 Kite Line Radio Comments Off on 357 | Transforming Trauma- Voices from Inside-Out

Content Warning: This episode contains references to sexual trauma and harm. We start off this episode with our monthly round up of prison disturbances, as compiled by Perilous Chronicle- followed by some recent prison news. We close our episode with a feature created by students as part of Dr. Micol Seigel’s Inside Out program at...

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356 | Advocacy Into Action

July 31, 2023 Kite Line Radio Comments Off on 356 | Advocacy Into Action

And now we return to the second part of our conversation between Micol Seigel and Amanda Hall. Last week, Hall talked to us about how her firsthand experience of incarceration led her to her current work in prisoner and re-entry support.  And now she talks through her continuing advocacy through Dream.org and the ACLU. You...

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355 | Experience Into Advocacy

July 26, 2023 Kite Line Radio Comments Off on 355 | Experience Into Advocacy

For this episode, we share the first part of a conversation between Micol Seigel and Amanda Hall. Hall talks to us about how her firsthand experience of incarceration led her to her current work in prisoner and re-entry support. We will air the second part of this conversation next week. You can find out more...

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354 | The Atlanta Solidarity Fund

June 2, 2023 Kite Line Radio Comments Off on 354 | The Atlanta Solidarity Fund

On the morning of May 31st, Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Atlanta Police Department raided a house and arrested three staff members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The Atlanta Solidarity Fund is a non profit organization that supports those arrested for protesting or otherwise prosecuted for involvement in social movements. Over the last year, the...

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353 | Prison by Any Other Name, Part One

May 19, 2023 Kite Line Radio Comments Off on 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...

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352 | Crisis and Neglect

April 21, 2023 Kite Line Radio Comments Off on 352 | Crisis and Neglect

The U.S. was shaken this week by the death of Lashawn Thompson in Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail.  He had been moved to the psychiatric ward after being jailed on a simple battery charge.  Physically healthy when he was arrested, he was left in a cell infested with bed bugs and other vermin.  Michael Harper, an...

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