Perilous Chronicle
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -Perilous Chronicle is a digital research and media project as well as an historical archive that documents prison uprisings, protests, strikes and other disturbances within jails, prisons and detention centers in the US and Canada.
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Over A Decade Of Resistance To The Northwest Detention Center
July 21, 2021 15:00 - 39 minutes - 57.9 MBSummary 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 of incarceration and collective action and strategy. In this episode we hear an audio version of Over a Decade of Resistance to the North...
Newly Obtained Documents Reveal Surveillance of Teenage Activists in Tucson, AZ
June 21, 2021 13:00 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MBWelcome 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.
‘I Am An Anarchist’: Remembering Anarchist Prisoner Brian McCarvill
April 27, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutes - 9.43 MBThanks 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 inside, on his 68th birthday. Our sincere condolences to those who knew Brian. We would also like to take this time to let you all know about a ne...
The First 90 Days of COVID Resistance
January 22, 2021 23:12 - 56 minutes - 51.2 MBBefore 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 launched to coincide with the Alabama prison strike/30 Day Economic Blackout called for by the Free Alabama Movement and is planned to conclude...
Rebellion and Bloodshed Amidst Oregon Prison Evacuations
September 25, 2020 23:02 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBThis 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 Oregon State Penitentiary. Bryan described the conditions he is living through as the constant threat of COVID-19 collides with the dangers of smoke...
African Immigrants Launch Black August Hunger Strike in ICE Detention
September 03, 2020 00:20 - 55 minutes - 40 MBWelcome 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 of incarceration and collective action and strategy. This week, we cover the hunger strike that occurred at the Pine Prairie ICE Detention Center ...
"If they kill me in the hole, I'll go out satisfied": Protest at Winn Correctional
August 22, 2020 22:07 - 19 minutes - 19.5 MBSummary 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 of incarceration and collective action and strategy. In this episode, we cover a protest that began this month, August of 2020, at Winn C...
Hunger Strike at Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
June 29, 2020 16:34 - 48 minutes - 12.7 MBWelcome 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 of incarceration and collective action and strategy. This week, we cover the hunger strike that occurred in early June at the Mesa Verde ICE Proce...
An Interview with Dr. Heather Ann Thompson
June 17, 2020 20:43 - 1 hour - 25.7 MBThis 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 and Duncan Tarr spoke with Dr. Thompson about the wave of unrest sweeping the country in jails, prisons and detention centers in response to the...
Hunger Strike in Guyama, Puerto Rico
May 18, 2020 16:10 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBThis 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 been covered by English language news, evidence of the lack of attention given on the mainland US to both the suffering and the brave resistance ...
Protests at Saskatchewan Penitentiary, Canada
May 11, 2020 21:50 - 41 minutes - 30.3 MBThis 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 hunger strike in the men’s unit of Adelanto was also ongoing. Perilous Podcast is a news and oral history project featuring original interviews with...
Hunger Strikes at Adelanto ICE Processing Center and Otay Mesa Detention Center
April 21, 2020 17:56 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBToday 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 strike demanding sanitation measures in response to Covid-19.
Interview with Etowah County Jail ICE detainee Tesfa Miller
April 19, 2020 22:06 - 32 minutes - 9.24 MBDetainees 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 measures to protect detainees against the spread of COVID-10.Tefsa Miller, one of the detainees who stood on the ledge threatening suicide, spok...