15 Best Prison Podcasts

1. Beyond Prisons

Beyond Prisons is a podcast on justice, mass incarceration, and prison abolition.
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537 17.6K 1 episode / month Avg Length 50 min
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2. Bird Podcast | Stories from prison

London, England, UK
Bird Podcast investigates what it really means to do time in the UK prison system. One topic, two chicks, three points of view. Explores themes around... mental health, substance misuse, women in prison, UK gangs, life sentences & rehabilitation.more
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598 1.1K 1 episode / year Avg Length 32 min
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3. KBOO » Prison Pipeline

Prison Pipeline is a radio program dedicated to educating the public about the Oregon criminal justice system. The goal is to present a unique underst...anding of the criminal justice system, address the root causes of crime, and challenge the status quo. more
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895 90 8.6K 2 episodes / month
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4. Prison POD

This podcast is for people who are in jail or prison, and/or affected by incarceration. Using Sociology and Peace Studies to: Save Lives, Restore Hope..., Reduce Suffering and Recidivism. The host has 20 years experience working inside several jails and prisons, providing education in substance abuse prevention, doing HIV testing and counseling, reentry planning, inmate advocacy, and mentoring. This work brought them into various areas of peoples lives including coming home, marriages, births, courts, jail visits...death.more
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1 episode / month Avg Length 26 min
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5. Necessary Blackness Podcast

Necessary Blackness is a widely popular podcast by award-winning journalist and filmmaker Rahiem Shabazz. Necessary Blackness reaches over 10,000 peop...le weekly and is for those who are unapologetic in showing their appreciation and love for black culture and people - a Controversial Film About the School-to-Prison Pipeline.more
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13.5K 13.3K 3 episodes / month Avg Length 39 min Dec 2016
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6. Curtain The Podcast

This is Curtain - a podcast where we pull back the blinds to shine a light on the darkest parts of our justice system and ask - who are the victims? C...ould an Aboriginal man who has served 25 years in prison for Murder be innocent? Hosts Amy McQuire and Martin Hodgson.more
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2.1K 1 episode / month Avg Length 31 min
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7. Uncuffed

San Francisco, California, US
Uncuffed is a show made by people behind bars in California prisons. We share intimate stories of our struggles and triumphs, and of the heartache and... forgiveness taking place within these walls. Uncuffed is vulnerable and personal. If you can see the humanity in us, you can see the humanity in everyone.more
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10.4K 6.4K 2.7K 1 episode / week Avg Length 27 min
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8. Voices from the Other Side

Voices from the Other Side is primarily intended, first of all, to be a beacon of hope and a true 'voice' for our 'forgotten' incarcerated communi...ties, of both women and men , within the confines of the Department of Corrections. Certainly our target audience( as well as interviewees) may very well be these same prisoners , who might otherwise ,for the most part, face an almost insurmountable task of ever being heard from, by the outside community, while serving out their sentences.more
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9 episodes / quarter Avg Length 33 min
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9. Prison: The Hidden Sentence

Las Vegas, Nevada, US
The purpose of this blog is to educate and empower those who have or had a loved one in prison. Raising awareness one story at a time. We are a commu...nity dedicated to helping loved ones of the incarcerated break free of the hidden sentence.more
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1K 2.2K 1 episode / week
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10. Prison Radio

Prison Radio records and broadcasts the voices of prisoners, centering their analyses and experiences in the movements against mass incarceration and ...state repression.more
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6K 5.6K 1.4K
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11. Reimagining Prison

Lansdowne, VA
Prison Fellowship is a Christian non-profit organization that aims to restore those affected by crime and incarceration by helping men and women in pr...ison achieve holistic life transformation and emerge as productive citizens.more
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130.9K 16.6K 14.6K
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12. Forgotten Prison

Washington, US
McNeil Island in South Puget Sound is the Alcatraz you've never heard of. The now-abandoned prison on McNeil operated for 136 years. Today, the is...land is home to the Special Commitment Center, which houses Washington state's 'sexually violent predators.' A collaboration between KNKX and the Washington State Historical Society, Forgotten Prison tells the stories of inmates, guards, and children who grew up on the island. The history of this forgotten place can tell us a lot about how and why we lock people up.more
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28.2K 20.7K 1 episode / quarter
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13. Hutchinson News » Inside Prison Walls

The latest interviews and special features from The Hutchinson News.
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29.9K 14.9K
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14. Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom

New York, NY
Based on the files of the lawyers who freed them, Wrongful Conviction features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crim...es they did not commit - some of them had even been sentenced to death. These are their stories.more
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96.9K 9K 12.4K 23 episodes / year Avg Length 41 min
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15. Life of a Lifer Podcast

Washington, US
'Life of A Lifer' podcast hosted by Designed Conviction founder, Taylor Tom, in conjunction with co-host Cecilia Conley, Wife of a Lifer. Taylor Tom C...onley is serving a life without the possibility of parole sentence and opens his life up to give a unique perspective, one you may not hear about in the media. The human perspective, not only from him, but he invites others to share their stories and experiences.more
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1.2K 2.3K 1.1K
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