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Prison Radio Show
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The Prison Radio Show has two time slots on CKUT 90.3 fm http://www.ckut.ca.*The first time slot is:On the second Thursday of every month between 5-6 pm the Prison Radio Show is part of CKUT's Off The Hour.The second time slot is:The fourth Friday of every month between 11am and 12pm.Occasionally the Prison Radio Show will have an additional show during the fifth Friday.All audio on CKUT 90.3 fm is archived for a minimum of two months, so if you miss a show, you can download it at ckut.ca or here on the blog.Prison Radio has been on the air in Montreal for more than a decade. The show seeks to confront the invisibility of prisons and prisoner struggle, by focusing on the roots of incarceration, policing, and criminalization, and by challenging ideas about what prisons are and who ends up inside.Prison Radio is dedicated to programming that is directly collaborative with people who are currently incarcerated. This is in the interest of forging stronger ties between incarce
Episodes
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October 21, 2025
Tonight, we're going to take gender diversity for granted. We're going to say that trans people are real, and we're going to talk about the facts that are behind linear stories. We'll be speaking to transactivists, legal scholars, as well as lawyers who work on this topic, to provide a different...
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October 7, 2025
On the two-year anniversary of the latest escalation of violence in Gaza, this episode turns its focus to solidarity with the Palestinian people. We open with major breaking news: Israel's naval forces have intercepted a large international humanitarian flotilla — the largest of its kind yet —...
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September 23, 2025
Today, we'll be airing a radio documentary we made back in May 2019. Somehow, the documentary never made it into our archives, and so we wanted to share it here again. The documentary talks about the new prison for migrants that was being built at the time, and the alternatives, the detention...
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September 9, 2025
Today is the prisoner's justice state episode on prison radio show. This year we are celebrating 50 years of prisoners Justice Day. We will be airing audio from the prisoners justice day events that took place in Montreal on Prisoners Justice Day on Sunday, August 10th.
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August 26, 2025
This inaugural episode of a very special series called Prison Radio Internationale. From those of you who may be new listeners, Prison Radio is a bi-weekly show at CKUT that brings you news and stories about people who are incarcerated in prisons and struggling against the greater prison…
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August 12, 2025
This episode is focussing on prisoners justice day. It's the 50th prisoners justice day that just went by on Sunday, August 10th, and we are focussing this episode and highlighting what prisoners justice day is.
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July 29, 2025
This episode covers a panel discussion on prison labour in Canada. Key points include that prisoner pay has been frozen at a maximum of $6.90/day since 1981, that the work prisoners do is effectively forced labour with real economic value, and that there is an ongoing legal effort to have…
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July 15, 2025
This episode covers the criminalization of Indigenous land defense, provides a news update on Ontario provincial prison conditions, and discusses policies and realities faced by incarcerated trans persons, hearing from lawyers, activists, and scholars working and advocating in this area.
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July 1, 2025
Today we're airing audio from the Final Straw Radio which airs on Asheville FM in North Carolina. Their show on June 23rd featured 2 interviews one talking about the annual "Shut'em Down Week of Action", called by jailhouse lawyer speak for December of this year and one talking with Monsour…
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June 17, 2025
Today's episode features a book launch event that took place on April 11th at the Shift Centre. The book is titled "Defund: Conversations towards abolition" published by Haymarket Books. The book features the collection of interviews with prison abolitionist organizers and thinkers on how to…
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May 20, 2025
This episode focused on Palestinian prisoners and featured an interview with the Director of the International Committee of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, Rahid Ahmer, who is based in Nablus in the West Bank. As always the audio from the previous show bleeds into the start of this one! We…
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May 6, 2025
This show was our funding drive special! We talked to folks on parole and people in prison about why CKUT and the Prison Radio Show matters to them. Then the hosts share a bit about why they care about the show and their motivations for volunteering with the station.
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April 8, 2025
This episode featured audio from a panel discussion that happened in March 2025 in Montreal. It was part of the Rafales Anarchist Learning Camp, organized by the Revolutionary Anarchist Organization. The panel was on police and prison abolition and featured Mélina from the Comité Autonome du...
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March 25, 2025
This episode features a special interview with Maryam Kashani, an associate professor at the University of Illinois and an organizer with Believers Bail Out, a "community led effort to bailout Muslims in pretrial and immigration incarceration towards abolition". Professor Kashani published the…
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February 11, 2025
This episode featured audio from organizers with the International Coalition for Palestinian Hostages, including their spokesperson Dr. Mai Hussein. This exclusive Prison Radio Show interview was recorded in August 2024. The audio is taken straight from the CKUT archives and includes a small bit…
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December 31, 2024
This episode featured archival and live footage from the New Years Eve Noise Demo in Montreal, an annual event where people gather outside prisons and send holiday greetings to people locked up inside. The event features fireworks, speeches, music, and banners all in support of prisoners.
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December 17, 2024
This episode focused on migrant justice and prisoner justice. We shared audio from a demonstration that took place in November 2024 outside the immigration detention centre in Laval, Quebec. The demonstration was organized by Solidarity Across Borders in solidarity with a Colombian family who was...
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September 24, 2024
This episode featured audio from a conference called Abolitionist Initimicies that happened from June 29-July 1, 2024 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Information on the conference can be found here: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/events/view/abolitionist-intimacies-symposium The panel we aired is the...
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August 13, 2024
This episode featured audio from the Prisoner Justice Day events of August 10, 2024.
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July 16, 2024 Full Show
This episode featured an interview with Lauren Aarons. She is one of the authors of a recently released report from Amnesty International entitled Aftermath: Injustice, Torture and Death in Detention in North-East Syria (available here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/MDE24/7752/2024/en/ )....
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Full Show April 9, 2024
The episode features a panel discussion from the Asian Prisoner Support Committee and 18 Million Rising about their present campaign to demand a pardon for the APSC4. We hear from the APSC4: Kee, Bun, Maria and Peejay. They are four staff members with the Asian Prisoner Support Committee—and all...
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Full Show March 26, 2024
This is the first episode of Prison Radio Show's new series on the mass incarceration of Palestinians by Israel into Israeli prisons. On today's show we feature an interview with Raed Amer, the president of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, / sometimes translated as the Palestinian Prisoner's…
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Full Show March 12, 2024
This show featured audio from a workshop given by the Termite Collective as part of the Concordia Student Union's teach-in during their three day strike in January 2024. The workshop was about prisoner justice organizing and featured a "True or False" questionnaire about the Canadian prison…
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Full Show January 2, 2024
This show featured two audio recordings from prisonradio.org that were aired at the top of the show. We then shared audio from the annual New Years Eve Noise Demo which happened in Laval, Quebec on the evening of December 31, 2023 outside of four different carceral institutions - two federal…
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Full Show December 5, 2023
This show featured audio from a panel discussion that happened at UQAM in September. The panel was part of a symposium was called Penser les catégories pénales à l'aune des sciences sociales. The panel itself was called Perspective queer et luttes anti-carcérales. We also opened the show...
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Full Show August 15, 2023
This is our Prisoner Justice Day Special. It features audio from people who would have spoken at the Montreal PJD event, which was cancelled due to weather conditions. You will hear from Wendy Bariteau and Christophe Lewis, who were both scheduled to speak at the Montreal PJD event. Christophe...
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Full Show August 1, 2023
This show features a long news section about a recent class-action lawsuit as well as an interview with Rasheed Stanley-Lockheart, the Reentry Director with the Ahimsa Collective. He is one of the authors of the recently released memo called "The Case for People First Reentry" and our interview...
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July 4, 2023 Full Show
Our first ever Tuesday show! Our schedule has now changed to every other Tuesday night from 6-7pm! As we said on the last episode, we don't normally post shows where the majority of the content is a re-broadcast, but this show also included original audio from the inside. We have been getting…
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June 23, 2023 Full Show
We don't normally post episodes where the majority of the content is re-broadcasts from other shows, but this one includes new audio from inside correspondent Muti Ajamu-Osagboro. It is a short piece from him about experiencing the wildfire smoke from Quebec while imprisoned in Pennsylvania. The...
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May 11, 2023 Full Show
This episode featured an interview with Tommy Bassio, who is incarcerated in Archambault prison in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec. He talked to us about a report he co-authored with other prisoners called The Archambault Report 2.0. We also aired an interview with someone from the Barton…
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April 13, 2023 Full Show
Today's show focuses on the demands of prisoners in Block 8, organizing against racism and ableism inside Kenora jail. The majority of those incarcerated in Kenora jail come from the surrounding Indigenous communities. We speak with Trish, who through the Prison Project has been supporting and...
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Full Show March 24, 2023
This episode features audio from a book launch that happened in Montreal on March 14, 2023. The launch was for the book 1312 raisons d'abolir la police by Gwenola Ricordeau. The event was hosted by Étienne Simard from Revue Ouvrage. Gwenola Ricordeau, Jessica Quijano from Defund the SPVM, and...
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Full Show January 12, 2023
This show featured audio from an interview that Kiteline Radio did with Jarrod Shanahan about his book called Captives: How Riker's Island Took New York City Hostage. We share this audio in part because of a news story in Montreal. In December, newspapers in Montreal announced that the province...
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Full Show December 23, 2022
This episode features Gita Madan from Education not Incarceration in Toronto talking about the school to prison pipeline. Gita is a teacher in the Toronto school system. Education Not Incarceration (ENI) is a team of youth, students, parents/ caregivers, educators, researchers, journalists, and...
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From the Archives: February 27, 2015 Show
Decided to put up a show from our archives on the podcast. Enjoy. It's from February 27, 2015. At the time, we would record live and download our episodes from the CKUT archives so there's a bit of the jazz show's tail end at the beginning. Our show starts at 1m16s! This show featured two live...
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Full Show October 13, 2022
This show features a bunch of new audio from Muti Ajamu-Osagboro that we recorded between August and October 2022. We also air a new podcast from a Montreal org called DESTA Black Community Network. The podcast is called Stories from the Inside Out and you can listen to it directly from DESTA…
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Full Show August 26, 2022
Audio from August 10th, 2022 Prisoner Justice Day event in Montreal. Featuring Johanne Wendy Bariteau, Kiyha, audio from the inside, and more!
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Full Show August 11, 2022
This episode features a long interview with Ardath Whynacht. Ardath teaches at Mount Allison University and wrote the book Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide. In the interview, we took a deep dive into questions the book brings up such as what is the difference between intimate...
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Full Show May 12, 2022
Today on the programme, we share with you a book launch event that took place at Ausgang Plaza earlier this month on May 3rd. The book is titled "Delivrez-nous de la prison Leclerc! un temoignage de l'interieur" and is by author Louise Henry, published by Ecosociete. It is about women provincial...
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Full Show April 14, 2022
This show features Matthew, who is currently incarcerated at Riviere des Prairies prison on the island of Montreal. He shared news with us about the situation in RDP two years into the covid 19 pandemic. After that we heard from authors of the book Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in...
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Full Show March 25, 2022
Today's interview features Jeri, the coordinator of Open Door, a program run by the Montréal-based group Communitas. Open Door is an independent community integration program, and supports people both during and after incarceration. Jeri shares all about Open Door's 20-year legacy, including…
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Full Show February 10, 2022
This show featured an interview with Naomi Berlyne who is a founder of the Write On! Project. The group writes letters to prisoners and has recently published data on what they have learned about the prison system from their letters. This show also featured audio from this episode of Kiteline...
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Full Show January 13, 2022
This show featured audio from three prisoners. First up we featured audio from Muti Ajamu-Osagboro, an inside correspondent from Pennsylvania. He read a speech he gave as part of a one day conference called Freedom: Land & Abolition that happened in November 2021. Then we spoke with Christophe...
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Full Show December 24, 2021
This was a shout out show for the holidays! Featuring a range of voices from the inside and outside sharing well wishes, poetry, songs, and jokes.
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Full Show December 9, 2021
Today we are featuring audio from a talk that happened in Montreal on Sunday December 5th. The talk was called Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide. The talk featured Montreal based Black feminist community organizers and researchers Marlihan Lopez and Nathalie Batraville interviewing...
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Full Show November 11, 2021
This show features an interview with Melissa Munn, an academic and prisoner justice activist who runs the website penalpress.com. The penal press refers to publications made inside prisons, which Munn has been digitalizing and putting online. The show also features a news update about Christophe...
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Full Show October 14, 2021
This show featured the story of Lucas, a prisoner currently incarcerated at Bordeaux Prison on the island of Montreal. Lucas tells us about experiencing constant lockdowns at Bordeaux, filing grievances to figure out why the lockdowns were happening, and then getting roughed up by the guards as a...
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Full Show September 24, 2021
Today's show features an update from a prisoner in Bordeaux, a provincial prison on the island of Montreal. In the piece, he talks about the situation in his sector, where prisoners have been locked down the majority of the time since March 2021. He reads two responses from the administration to...
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Full Show September 9, 2021
This episode of the Prison Radio Show commemorates the 50 year anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion & those who died in this massacre. It opens with a short news piece about the situation in Bordeaux Prison on the island of Montreal then moves into the Attica commemoration. This show pulls...
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Full Show August 27, 2021
This show features an interview with Daniel who is currently incarcerated in Bordeaux prison. We also share a short clip featuring Nick Dinardo who is currently incarcerated in Port Cartier. Following that we honour the 50th anniversary of the death of George Jackson with audio from him talking...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Prison Radio Show has two time slots on CKUT 90.3 fm http://www.ckut.ca.*The first time slot is:On the second Thursday of every month between 5-6 pm the Prison Radio Show is part of CKUT's Off The Hour.The second time slot is:The fourth Friday of every month between 11am and 12pm.Occasionally the Prison Radio Show will have an additional show during the fifth Friday.All audio on CKUT 90.3 fm is archived for a minimum of two months, so if you miss a show, you can download it at ckut.ca or here on the blog.Prison Radio has been on the air in Montreal for more than a decade. The show seeks to confront the invisibility of prisons and prisoner struggle, by focusing on the roots of incarceration, policing, and criminalization, and by challenging ideas about what prisons are and who ends up inside.Prison Radio is dedicated to programming that is directly collaborative with people who are currently incarcerated. This is in the interest of forging stronger ties between incarce
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