The station’s programming is created by incarcerated producers in manufacturing studios in 3 Colorado prisons.
LIMON, Colo. — The primary statewide jail radio station in U.S. historical past launches Tuesday, March 1.
“Inside Wire: Colorado Jail Radio” reaches over 14,000 incarcerated listeners through the Colorado Division of Corrections (CDOC) closed circuit TV community. The radio station broadcasts music, tales, information, and leisure into all services within the CDOC.
The general public will be capable of hearken to the simultaneous sign starting Tuesday, March 1 at 11 a.m. at ColoradoPrisonRadio.com and on the Inside Wire app on Apple and Android.
A challenge of the College of Denver Jail Arts Initiative (DU PAI), the radio station’s programming is created by incarcerated producers in manufacturing studios in three prisons: Limon Correctional Facility (LCF), Sterling Correctional Facility (SCF) and Denver Ladies’s Correctional Facility (DWCF).
“There’s such a wealth of tales and views behind the partitions,” mentioned Ryan Conarro, DU PAI workers member and Inside Wire’s Normal Supervisor and Program Director. “Radio is the right medium for this surroundings. We actually imagine that listening and sharing are important human acts, each out and in of jail.”
“The fact is that 90-95% of incarcerated individuals can be launched from jail and return to communities as our neighbors,” mentioned Colorado Division of Corrections Government Director Dean Williams. “It’s vital that via applications like Inside Wire, incarcerated individuals have the chance to take care of a way of reference to one another, with the neighborhood, and have a goal and focus of their life whereas they’re serving their time.”
Inside Wire’s 24-hour program schedule features a weekday morning music present out of LCF and a weekly present “As much as the Minute with Dean Williams,” billed as “an unfiltered dialog between residents and the CDOC govt director.”
“The concept for this radio station took form for us a 12 months in the past, in the course of the first winter of the COVID-19 international pandemic,” mentioned Hamilton. “We have been asking, ‘How can we create significant experiences for individuals inside jail, when isolation is at an all-time excessive? How can we proceed to create neighborhood and significant artistic experiences for people inside, even throughout this time?'”
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