How would you spend time in jail? Working out, studying or maybe even digging a tunnel?
While serving his 31 years to life sentence for robbery, Earlonne Woods decided to spend his time wisely, teaming up with the prison volunteer teacher Nigel Poor to create a pretty unique podcast.
Written, produced and recorded inside of the prison’s media lab, Earlonne and his fellow felons tell their own true stories of incarceration through thought-provoking interviews on what life is really like behind bars.
Ear Hustle: Stories from Behind Bars
As you can imagine, there are a few challenges, with limited hours that they can actually work together, no internet access and restrictions on phone privileges. Even their sound guy is doing 15 years for armed robbery. Spoiler – this dynamic changes when Earlonne is released years later, offering his new perspective on the outside world.
In case you’re wondering, the podcast title ‘Ear Hustle’ is a jail term for ‘eavesdropping’ – not minding your own business – which, if you’ve watched enough prison shows, you’d know is not a good idea.
They expose the myths around prison, prisoners and everything in between.
Download Ear Hustle if you love insightful stories for a world most of us will never know. You can find Ear Hustle wherever you listen to your podcasts.
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