Summary Welcome back to the Perilous Podcast, a news and oral history project featuring original interviews with prisoners and detainees who have participated in or witnessed protests, uprisings and other forms of unrest behind bars. We also gather analysis and insight from researchers and advocates in an effort to build a better understanding of s…

Welcome to another episode of the Perilous Podcast. This week we bring you an audio version of our recently published article on police surveillance of activists in Tucson, Arizona, during the 2020 wave of protests in response to the murder of George Floyd. The original article can be found here.

Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Perilous Podcast. Recently our capacity for producing podcasts has fallen off a bit. We send our apologies to our listeners for the gap in episodes. This month, we bring you an audio version of our article on the death of anarchist prisoner Brian McCarvill, who tragically died from COVID while still i…

Before we get in to the content for today's podcast, we have a few headlines from some of the current struggles ongoing inside prisons and detention centers. Near Montgomery, Alabama at the Kilby Correctional Facility, 11 imprisoned people have been on hunger strike since January 1st in response to the conditions of their captivity. The strike was …

This episode was first featured on "This is America", a project of It's Going Down. This week, we cover the prison evacuations in Oregon as wildfires tear through the state and down the coast. In order to get a closer look at the situation, Perilous correspondent Ryan Fatica spoke with a prisoner named Bryan MacDonand who was evacuated to the Orego…

Welcome back to the Perilous Podcast, a news and oral history project featuring original interviews with prisoners and detainees who have participated in or witnessed protests, uprisings and other forms of unrest behind bars. We also gather analysis and insight from researchers and advocates in an effort to build a better understanding of systems o…

Summary Welcome back to the Perilous Podcast, a news and oral history project featuring original interviews with prisoners and detainees who have participated in or witnessed protests, uprisings and other forms of unrest behind bars. We also gather analysis and insight from researchers and advocates in an effort to build a better understanding of s…

Welcome back to the Perilous Podcast, a news and oral history project featuring original interviews with prisoners and detainees who have participated in or witnessed protests, uprisings and other forms of unrest behind bars. We also gather analysis and insight from researchers and advocates in an effort to build a better understanding of systems o…

This week, we have a very special interview with Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, historian at the University of Michigan, and the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy and Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City. Perilous Researchers Ryan Fatica…

This week, we spoke with Diego Alcala, a criminal defense and human rights attorney based in Puerto Rico about a hunger strike that occurred on March 20 at a prison in Guayama, Puerto Rico and we also read a letter from the hunger strikers that was recently translated to English by friends of Perilous Chronicle. The hunger strike at Guayama has not…

This week, we spoke with prisoner rights advocates in Canada about protests at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in response to Covid-19 restrictions. We also have an audio statement from a detainee in the women’s unit at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center who says detainees there are going on strike, as Democracy Now reports that, as of May 1, the hun…

Today we have an interview with Marcos Duran, a detainee at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center who participated in a hunger strike at the facility in early April and Lizbeth Mateo, an immigration attorney who represents Duran. Later in the program, we have a group audio statement from detainees at the Otay Mesa Detention Center who are on hunger st…

Detainees at the Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama staged a protest on March 20 after three new detainees were brought into the facility with flu symptoms. Detainees stood on the upper tier of their dorm with bed sheets tied around their necks, threatening to kill themselves if the facility failed to institute effective quarantine …