WBEZ weekend special, Prisoncast, offers shared listening experience for incarcerated people and their family and friends
Two-hour special will air on WBEZ and Illinois Public Radio stations across the state Aug. 28, featuring songs and sounds requested by people serving time plus resources for prison families
CHICAGO (August 24, 2022) – This past summer, WBEZ Chicago asked people in Illinois prisons what sounds and songs they miss most from the outside.
With the help of more than a dozen organizations that work inside Illinois state prisons, WBEZ’s Community Engagement Team asked incarcerated people and their families: What is a sound from outside prison walls that you’d like to hear? Is there a song you’d like to hear? And, what’s something you want people on the outside to know about your life on the inside?
With that input, WBEZ journalists got to work. They gathered the sounds of Lake Michigan and a White Sox homerun, babies laughing and a Great America rollercoaster – even the audio from rain drumming on a metal roof in Puerto Rico.