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Perilous Chronicle
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Perilous Chronicle is a digital research and media project as well as an historical archive that documents prison uprisings, protests, strikes and other disturbances within jails, prisons and detention centers in the US and Canada.
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Over A Decade Of Resistance To The Northwest Detention Center
Summary Welcome back to the Perilous Podcast, a news and oral history project featuring original interviews with prisoners and detainees who have participated in or witnessed protests, uprisings and other forms of unrest behind bars. We also gather analysis and insight from researchers and...
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Newly Obtained Documents Reveal Surveillance of Teenage Activists in Tucson, AZ
Welcome to another episode of the Perilous Podcast. This week we bring you an audio version of our recently published article on police surveillance of activists in Tucson, Arizona, during the 2020 wave of protests in response to the murder of George Floyd. The original article can be found here.
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‘I Am An Anarchist’: Remembering Anarchist Prisoner Brian McCarvill
Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Perilous Podcast. Recently our capacity for producing podcasts has fallen off a bit. We send our apologies to our listeners for the gap in episodes. This month, we bring you an audio version of our article on the death of anarchist prisoner Brian...
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The First 90 Days of COVID Resistance
Before we get in to the content for today's podcast, we have a few headlines from some of the current struggles ongoing inside prisons and detention centers. Near Montgomery, Alabama at the Kilby Correctional Facility, 11 imprisoned people have been on hunger strike since January 1st in response…
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Rebellion and Bloodshed Amidst Oregon Prison Evacuations
This episode was first featured on "This is America", a project of It's Going Down. This week, we cover the prison evacuations in Oregon as wildfires tear through the state and down the coast. In order to get a closer look at the situation, Perilous correspondent Ryan Fatica spoke with a prisoner...
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African Immigrants Launch Black August Hunger Strike in ICE Detention
Welcome back to the Perilous Podcast, a news and oral history project featuring original interviews with prisoners and detainees who have participated in or witnessed protests, uprisings and other forms of unrest behind bars. We also gather analysis and insight from researchers and advocates in…
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"If they kill me in the hole, I'll go out satisfied": Protest at Winn Correctional
Summary Welcome back to the Perilous Podcast, a news and oral history project featuring original interviews with prisoners and detainees who have participated in or witnessed protests, uprisings and other forms of unrest behind bars. We also gather analysis and insight from researchers and...
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Hunger Strike at Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
Welcome back to the Perilous Podcast, a news and oral history project featuring original interviews with prisoners and detainees who have participated in or witnessed protests, uprisings and other forms of unrest behind bars. We also gather analysis and insight from researchers and advocates in…
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An Interview with Dr. Heather Ann Thompson
This week, we have a very special interview with Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, historian at the University of Michigan, and the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy and Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a...
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Hunger Strike in Guyama, Puerto Rico
This week, we spoke with Diego Alcala, a criminal defense and human rights attorney based in Puerto Rico about a hunger strike that occurred on March 20 at a prison in Guayama, Puerto Rico and we also read a letter from the hunger strikers that was recently translated to English by friends of...
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Protests at Saskatchewan Penitentiary, Canada
This week, we spoke with prisoner rights advocates in Canada about protests at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in response to Covid-19 restrictions. We also have an audio statement from a detainee in the women’s unit at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center who says detainees there are going on…
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Hunger Strikes at Adelanto ICE Processing Center and Otay Mesa Detention Center
Today we have an interview with Marcos Duran, a detainee at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center who participated in a hunger strike at the facility in early April and Lizbeth Mateo, an immigration attorney who represents Duran. Later in the program, we have a group audio statement from detainees…
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Interview with Etowah County Jail ICE detainee Tesfa Miller
Detainees at the Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama staged a protest on March 20 after three new detainees were brought into the facility with flu symptoms. Detainees stood on the upper tier of their dorm with bed sheets tied around their necks, threatening to kill themselves if…
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Perilous Chronicle is a digital research and media project as well as an historical archive that documents prison uprisings, protests, strikes and other disturbances within jails, prisons and detention centers in the US and Canada.
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Perilous Chronicle is a digital research and media project as well as an historical archive that documents prison uprisings, protests, strikes and other disturbances within jails, prisons and detention centers in the US and Canada.
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