Prison Radio seeks to confront the invisibility of prisons and prisoner struggle, by focusing on the roots of incarceration, policing, and criminalization, and by challenging our ideas about what prisons are and the people inside our jails.

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 incarcerated and non-incarcerated people, ensuring that prisoners have direct control over their representation, and that our understandings of prisons be informed by those who live inside their walls. On the air since 2010.

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April 28, 2023: Whole Orchard episode 1: Introduction and History of the Police

On today’s show we feature the first episode of the Whole Orchard. The Whole Orchard: a podcast series on police and prison abolition CLAC (an Anti-Capitalist Convergence) have created and published this podcast series and it is available online at https://www.clac-montreal.net/en/orchard. The Whole Orchard aims to share information relating to the abolition of police, prison and the justice system taking on topics such as the jailing of migrants, criminalization of dissent, and transformative justice. The first episode introduces the idea behind the project, a historical picture of police in colonized Canada and the United States, more specifically in so-called "Québec". All of the sources that are referenced in the episode can be found on the first episode of the first season’s page at https://www.clac-montreal.net/en/node/763

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