Uncuffed
Stories from inside California prisonsUncuffed is KALW's award-winning radio training program and podcast in California prisons.
Our podcast: Uncuffed
Our DJ program: The Uncuffed Playlist
Reentry stories: On the Other Side of the Wall
All other stories from Uncuffed can be found on the page below.
"Uncuffed is vulnerable and personal. If you can see the humanity in us, you can see the humanity in everyone."
Learn more and support the program at WeAreUncuffed.org.
Uncuffed is supported by the California Arts Council, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, The Unlikely Collaborators Foundation, and by individual community members.
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UncuffedThe Uncuffed producers can't vote. But you better believe they still have opinions. On this episode, ballot measures that would change prison life in California.
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UncuffedUncuffed producer Anthony Gomez shares the story of an exciting joyride and what it means to go home.
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UncuffedAfter a devastating loss, William Harris shares how he found meaning in life again. A new story from Uncuffed about helping yourself by helping others.
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UncuffedA young kid is taken from his mother's home in California and left in Mexico where everything feels different.
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UncuffedAndré Davis is about to get a college degree at San Quentin. But he wasn’t always a star student.
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UncuffedMeet the incarcerated producers joining the San Quentin Uncuffed crew this year and get to know them through their favorite songs.
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UncuffedUncuffed is pleased to share the new podcast, Track Change. Follow a group of men in Richmond, Virginia as they record an album inside a local county jail - a soundtrack to rebuilding a life after incarceration.
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UncuffedAs a teenager, Daniel Ruiz was a soccer star. That talent was supposed to keep him out of trouble, but trouble found him anyway.
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CrosscurrentsUncuffed Solano producer Jay Evans interviews Jerry Reyes about the time his mother abandoned the family, and how he learned to make sense of the loss.
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UncuffedIn California, incarcerated people legally have to work. One thing the jobs have in common? The next-to-nothing pay. Uncuffed gets down to business on the topic of involuntary servitude.