Prisoncast!
Prisoncast! is a special audio project for people inside Illinois prisons and their loved ones on the outside. Everything we cover or discuss -- on the radio or in stories online -- starts with questions, requests or ideas from currently or formerly incarcerated people, their loved ones, or groups that serve this population directly. Produced by WBEZ and Illinois Public Radio, the show airs on public radio stations across Illinois. Click the links below to listen back to our 2023 holiday special and our September show. Want to learn more? Email us at prisoncast@wbez.org, or a send a letter to: WBEZ Prisoncast!, 848 E. Grand Ave., Chicago, IL. 60611.
In Case You Missed It
- Street closings, security checkpoints, tree trimming, flower planting — it’s going to start looking a lot like DNC!
- Judge wants Chicago gang kingpin Larry Hoover in court for his mercy bid
- The hope, the worry and the surreal that Illinois Black female Democratic delegates see in Kamala Harris’ moment
- As the DNC returns to Chicago, Illinois’ dean of the delegation, Dick Durbin, basks in the moment
- Democrats expect Republican leaders to send more buses of migrants to Chicago before the DNC
- Video shows sheriff’s deputy shoot and kill an unarmed woman in Springfield, Ill.
- Kamala Harris presidential campaign considering J.B. Pritzker as running mate