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)

June 2, 2026: "Undermine it from within": an interview with former IRA prisoner Laurence McKeown

Our show today will feature former IRA prisoner and hunger striker Laurence McKeown. Laurence talked to us about his most recent memoir "And Flowers Grew Up Through the Concrete", which chronicles the period directly following the 1981 hunger strikes up until 1992. In part one of this interview Laurence talks a bit about his relationship with Bobby Sands (the most famous of the hunger strikers who died in 1981). But he mainly focuses on the change of strategy that Republican prisoners undertook after the hunger strikes ended. Laurence calls the new strategy "totally disrupt and undermine it from within" and explains the new tactics of resistance that the POWs used in that period. Part two of the interview will air on June 16.

Listen to this show: Listen | Download