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2025-01-17

  From the Vault: Crew No. 7

California relies on incarcerated firefighters to fight fires like the ones that have engulfed Southern California this month. But once these men and women are released from prison, they can have a hard time finding jobs on civilian firefighting crews....
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2025-01-08

  Revisiting “August 21, 1971”

In the next installment in our “sleeper hits” series, Earlonne listens back to the episode “August 21, 1971,” about George Jackson and one of the most significant days in San Quentin’s history. E talks about why this was an essential story for Ear Hust...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-12-11

  Last Memory: Linda

Linda’s mom brought her to a Catholic Mass because she had a sense her daughter was on the verge of something, and needed help. Thirty-seven years into her prison sentence, Linda wonders what would have happened if she had listened to her mom, and Nige...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-11-27

  Last Memory: Leisha

Leisha didn't plan on getting pregnant. And she certainly didn't plan on giving birth in prison. But on the day those two red lines showed up, Leisha found kindness in an unexpected place.Thanks to Katie Turner and Samantha Bhatia at Poetic Justice for...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-11-13

  The Wrong Line of Business

Earlonne's here with his "mystery" episode, and it's a doozy. He tells Nigel a redemption story wrapped in a drug-trafficking story, and, along the way, dives deep into several subjects we swore we'd never touch. Buckle up. Thanks to George for telling...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-11-06

  My Understanding of This Place: Nigel & Earlonne

Over the past two episodes we’ve been hearing about “memory places” at San Quentin: ordinary-seeming spots that become extraordinary through the eyes of people who spent time there. In this extra mini-ep, Nigel and Earlonne take us to their spots, and ...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-10-30

  My Understanding of This Place, Part 2

In the second part of this two-part series, Nigel reveals to Earlonne the final stops in her memory-tour of San Quentin, culminating in an exploration of the prison’s former death row. Thanks to Shaka for speaking with us for this episode. Special than...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-10-16

  My Understanding of This Place, Part 1

Nigel — with help from our team inside San Quentin — has been cooking up an episode that her co-host knows nothing about. Without giving too much away, we can tell you that it involves visiting a part of the prison no one on Ear Hustle had seen before ...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-10-02

  Election!

Incarcerated people in California can’t vote, but that doesn't mean they aren’t tracking electoral politics as closely as many of us on the outside are. In this episode, Ear Hustle’s inside team reveals the winner of its San Quentin presidential poll, ...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author
2024-09-18

  A Little Streets, a Little Romance, a Little Deception

Wali was on his way to make a life-altering decision when a book made him reconsider. Shaka’s 40 years on death row were shaped by three books picked out for him by a prison librarian. At three California prisons, books and libraries are thriving.Thank...
  Ear Hustle & Radiotopia author