#392 Gail & Madeline Bury of the Prison Family Podcast

Born from a sense of discouragement that policies related to incarceration are slow to change and a recognition that a significant portion of the general public is unaware of the larger societal impacts that occur when someone is incarcerated – the harms to family and social circles, to children and to future generations. What's it like to find out that someone you love has committed a crime, has hurt someone?  Not top of mind thinking for most people, unless you are a prison family member.  If you are, those thoughts intrude on pretty much every waking moment.  People that we love have harmed someone else.  That hurts.  They have also harmed us, emotionally, financially, sometimes physically.   This series explores the impacts of incarceration on secondary victims - family members - who are innocent of any crime but are often victimized by the system that exists to punish the crime they didn't commit. This podcast discusses the initial shock experienced by families when a loved one is incarcerated, in the true voices of family members.  It explores topics such as fear, shock, bias, loss, hope, hopelessness, security and lack of it.  Issues are explored more broadly with a number of subject matter experts. MOMS Ottawa has been advocating for a more humane prison system for over a decade, in addition to support for female family members of incarcerated loved ones.  Pros and Cons Program helps create music in prisons to support healing, restorative justice, victim support, and education.   Check them out at:  www.momsottawa.com prosandconsprogram.com Checkout my YouTube Channel with long form interviews from the Subversives | the History of Lowest of the Low. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9d1VSeOHYuxFWKuRdmn9j8UTW6AHwS_fAlso my Weekly Tour Vlog is up an live on the YouTubeshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9d1VSeOHYuwphwhc4zd0VgY66f1OUQZp Pledge monthly with Patreon https://www.patreon.com/apologueShop Apologue products at http://apologue.ca/shopCheck out new Four Square Here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/foursquare/brighton-beach-ephttps://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/foursquare/seven-oh-sevenhttps://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/foursquare/industry-at-home--21st-anniversary-remix-remasteredhttps://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/foursquare/when-weeks-were-weekends