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.

Prison Radio currently airs on alternating Tuesdays from 6-7pm.

Every other Tuesday 6 - 7pm (EDT)

July 15, 2025: Trans Prisoner Policy

Trans pisoners have been all over the news in 2025, most recently with Public Safety Minister François Bonnardel announcing that from now on, trans prisoners in Québec would be housed according to their "anatomical sex". We spoke with Amy Matychuk, Leon Laidlaw, Rain from Prisoner Correspondence Project, and Louise Nachet from Mouvement transfeminist, to find out some facts about what trans people face in prison. ERRATUM: There are in fact 5,400 inmates in Québec, not 54,000.

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