Episode 138: Catch a Kite: On the Road

We solicited questions about life in prison from audience members at our live shows. Then, we took those questions into a couple prisons we’d never been to before — Folsom State Prison in California, and SCI Chester in Pennsylvania — and got answers.

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Big thanks to the folks at SCI Chester in Pennsylvania, and Folsom State Prison in California, for showing us around and answering Catch a Kite questions for this episode.

This episode was scored with music by Antwan Williams, David Jassy, Derrell Sadiq Davis, Bruce Wallace, and Earlonne Woods.

Thanks, as always, to Warden Andes, Lt. Berry, and Sgt. Graves at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center; Acting Warden Padilla, Associate Warden Lewis, and Lt. Avina at the California Institution for Women; and Warden De La Cruz and Lt. Vogel at the Central California Women’s Facility, for their support of the show.

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