Prison Radio Show

About Prison Radio Show

The Prison Radio Show has two time slots on CKUT 90.3 fm http://www.ckut.ca.* The first time slot is: On the second Thursday of every month between 5-6 pm the Prison Radio Show is part of CKUT's Off The Hour. The second time slot is: The fourth Friday of every month between 11am and 12pm. Occasionally the Prison Radio Show will have an additional show during the fifth Friday. All audio on CKUT 90.3 fm is archived for a minimum of two months, so if you miss a show, you can download it at ckut.ca or here on the blog. Prison Radio has been on the air in Montreal for more than a decade. The show seeks to confront the invisibility of prisons and prisoner struggle, by focusing on the roots of incarceration, policing, and criminalization, and by challenging ideas about what prisons are and who ends up inside. 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.

Publisher

Prison Radio Show

Category

history · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Apr 2020

Latest episode

1 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

79 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Jun 2026

   October 21, 2025

   Tonight, we're going to take gender diversity for granted. We're going to say that trans people are real, and we're going to talk about the facts that are behind linear stories. We'll be speaking to transactivists, legal scholars, as well as lawyers who work on this topic, to provide a different perspective than what's being discussed in corporate media.

2. 

   1 Jun 2026

   October 7, 2025

   On the two-year anniversary of the latest escalation of violence in Gaza, this episode turns its focus to solidarity with the Palestinian people. We open with major breaking news: Israel's naval forces have intercepted a large international humanitarian flotilla — the largest of its kind yet — detaining approximately 3,500 activists from over 40 countries, including high-profile figures like Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan, as well as two Canadian citizens. A released American activist describes harrowing conditions in Israeli detention. We then move into our feature segment: a roundtable discussion marking the 50th anniversary of the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners.

3. 

   1 Jun 2026

   September 23, 2025

   Today, we'll be airing a radio documentary we made back in May 2019. 
Somehow, the documentary never made it into our archives, and so we wanted to share it here again. The documentary talks about the new prison for migrants that was being built at the time, and the alternatives, the detention program that was being rolled out alongside the prison construction project. It also talks about the resistance to the prison construction that happened in Montreal in Laval in 2018 and 2019.

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