Our Calls from Home broadcast on December 21, 2022, on CFRC 101.9FM from 7-9pm was our Annual Holiday Special.
The whole episode was re-broadcast on Christmas Day from 2-4PM. Thank you to everyone who sent in messages of love and support to those incarcerated in the Kingston area.
Here is the archive:
Calls from Home on December 21, 2022, on CFRC 101.9FM from 7-9pm is our Annual Holiday Special.
Please spread the word to everyone who has a loved one at any of the nearby prisons and jails — Quinte, Collins Bay, Bath, Joyceville, Millhaven, Pittsburgh, Frontenac, and Cape Vincent.
Not only will we have an extra hour of airtime from 7 to 9pm on Dec. 21, but we’ll also be re-broadcasting the entire episode on Christmas Day from 2-4PM.
Give your incarcerated friends and family the gift of hearing your voice and their favourite song!
Get in touch with us at 613-417-3359, cfrcprisonradio@riseup.net, or send us a DM.
Our monthly Calls from Home show, this time from September 28, 2022!
If you would like to send a message or a song request to a Kingston-area prison, please get in touch before the next show!
Calls from Home airs on CFRC 101.9fm in Kingston from 7-8pm on Wednesday evening, the last Wednesday of every month, or you can stream it at cfrc.ca.
To get in touch with a song and/or a message to share, you can leave us a voicemail at 613-417-3359 or email us at cfrcprisonradio@riseup.net.
You can also write to prison radio with song requests or messages for future CFH editions, or with news tips, poetry, ideas for stories for our regular weekly Prison Radio Show.
The address is:
CFRC Prison Radio
427 Princess Street, Suite 409
Kingston, ON
K7L 5S9
A special episode about Governor General’s Award winning author and former prisoner, Roger Caron, reflecting on his life and writing, on the occasion of a screening of a new documentary called Go-Boy: Memories of a Life Behind Bars.
Featuring our interview with Rob Lindsay, director, and Roger’s sister Sue, as well as audio of Roger Caron giving a talk at St. Lawrence College in 1982.
Our monthly Calls from Home show, this time from August 31, 2022!
If you would like to send a message or a song request to a Kingston-area prison, please get in touch before the next show!
Calls from Home airs on CFRC 101.9fm in Kingston from 7-8pm on Wednesday evening, the last Wednesday of every month, or you can stream it at cfrc.ca.
To get in touch with a song and/or a message to share, you can leave us a voicemail at 613-417-3359 or email us at cfrcprisonradio@riseup.net.
You can also write to prison radio with song requests or messages for future CFH editions, or with news tips, poetry, ideas for stories for our regular weekly Prison Radio Show.
The address is:
CFRC Prison Radio
427 Princess Street, Suite 409
Kingston, ON
K7L 5S9
In recognition of Prisoners’ Justice Day, August 10, 2022, an annual, international, day of remembrance for those who have died behind bars, CFRC Prison Radio took over the airwaves at CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston, Ontario, and CJAI 92.1 FM on Amherst Island from 4 to 10pm. Along with our special content, in the form of interviews, poetry readings, archival audio, and special guests and songs, we played song requests and messages of love, support and solidarity going out to local prisoners, many of whom fasted and refused work to mark PJD. Thank you to everyone who made contributions to the show, to everyone who listened, called in and sent messages of love and support during our 14th broadcast & thanks to CFRC, CJAI and to everyone behind the mic & behind the scenes that made it happen!
Here is the audio archive:
Contents of the archive (hour, minute, second):
0:00:00 – Introduction: What is Prisoner’s Justice Day?
0:27:38 – Readings from Luke from back issues of Tightwire, the publication produced by women incarcerated at the former Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario, between the 1970s and 1990s.
00:37:45 – A live version of Faith Nolan’s ‘Detention Order Blues.’
0:43:17 – Audio from the Archives 1: Steve Staplis interviews David Mulligan, head of the Vancouver Prisoner’s Right group, about deaths behind bars. Aired 1981 on Radio Peace.
0:54:26 – A reading of the poem “Freedom and It’s Price” by Glen Landers, who died after being shot off the perimeter fence and left to bleed to death at Millhaven Institution in 1977. Along with his brother Bobby, they were major influences on Prisoner’s Justice Day and other protests by prisoners at Millhaven.
1:01:15 – Audio from the Archives 2: CBC Archives – Patrick talks about the 1981 Matsqui prison riot.
1:06:50 – Recording of Cory Cardinal reading his poem ‘A Warrior’s Expression.’ Rest in Power, Cory.
1:16:40 – “Beyond My FPS,” sent in by Christophe, now partially-free, who runs the blog Freedom Is A Must (“Real talk, from a real prisoner, doing real time, in a real systemically racist system.”)
1:30:46 – Mr.ESQ: Prisoner’s Justice Day
1:35:21 – Audio from the Archives 3: “Pacific Report.” Special episode on the closure of British Columbia Penitentiary, called The Stone Cage. Aired in 1983. This clip features interviews with two ex-inmates about their experiences.
1:47:30 – Interview with Laurel Claus-Johnson about the P4W Memorial Collective and their annual Prisoners’ Justice Day Healing Circle at the former site of the Prison for Women
2:06:12 – Special guest hosts Bailey and Cedar talk about the Escaping Tomorrow’s Cages group, resisting prison expansion, and community solidarity with the incarcerated in Ontario.
2:29:45 – A reading of the poem “Out of Time” by Glen Landers.
2:32:34 – Audio from the Archives 4: Claire Culhane on Vancouver Co-Op in 1977, speaking about the importance of community support for the incarcerated and struggles for Indigenous spirituality and expression inside federal prisons.
2:42:53 – Interview with Donald, ex-prisoner and Prisoner’s Justice Day organizer from Montreal.
3:13:05 – Prisoner’s Justice Day Memorial: reading out the names of those who have died behind bars.
4:25:46 – Reading of a story, “Blue Guitar” sent in by the wife of a prisoner who died tragically beyond bars 3 years ago.
4:37:40 – Requests and messages from listeners, supporters and families of the incarcerated in the Kingston area.
Our monthly Calls from Home show!
If you would like to send a message or a song request to a Kingston-area prison, please get in touch before the next show!
Calls from Home airs on CFRC 101.9fm in Kingston from 7-8pm on Wednesday evening, the last Wednesday of every month, or you can stream it at cfrc.ca.
To get in touch with a song and/or a message to share, you can leave us a voicemail at 613-417-3359 or email us at cfrcprisonradio@riseup.net.
You can also write to prison radio with song requests or messages for future CFH editions, or with news tips, poetry, ideas for stories for our regular weekly Prison Radio Show.
The address is:
CFRC Prison Radio
427 Princess Street, Suite 409
Kingston, ON
K7L 5S9
Prisoners’ Justice Day is coming up on Wednesday, August 10. As usual, we’ll be taking over the airwaves at CFRC 101.9fm and CJAI 92.1 FM from 4-10PM to talk about the day and to honour and remember those we have lost inside Canadian prisons and jails since the first PJD in 1975.
Along with our special content, we’ll be playing song requests and messages of love, support and solidarity going out to local prisoners, many of whom will be fasting and refusing work to mark PJD.
Send a message or song request by writing to:
427 Princess Street
Suite 409
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 5S9
By e-mail:
cfrcprisonradio@riseup.net
Phone:
613-417-3359
Social media:
@cprkingston
Audio from Decarcerating Care: Community-Based Healing Alternatives and How to Build Them, part four of a series of group talks hosted by the Institute for the Development of Human Arts in New York. The fourth installment will explore the ways in which white supremacy plays out in the mental health system and movement spaces, and how we can draw upon traditional knowledge and lived experience to create more accountable, effective, and healing-centered alternatives.
Prisoner’s Justice Day is coming up, and we’ll be airing a special episode on August 10, 2022 starting at 4pm. This episode of CPR, on July 13, features an interview with Chris from PASAN about their upcoming Toronto PJD event on August 11 (to help those breaking their fast from the day before), and audio from 2021’s Healing Circle at the Prison for Women in Kingston.
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