About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges and efforts to maintain relationships across prison walls.

Send us a message Prisons are designed to isolate, break social ties, and destroy communities. Yet, people fight hard to keep relationships going across prison walls, and through all the crises that prisons manufacture. Episode 26 is Part One of a multi-episode series on relating across prison walls. This episode features conversations with friends inside prison, people who have been released, and people who have been doing direct support to prisoners for decades, about the barriers to connec...

People in this episode

Host: Dean Spade

Topics covered

• prison relationships
• social isolation
• community support
• barriers to connection
• direct support

Keywords

• prison
• relationships
• social ties
• community
• support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Prisons

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