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It's true! The day before Thanksgiving 2018, then-California Governor Jerry Brown commuted Earlonne's sentence, and Earlonne was released from San Quentin on Nov. I heard that Earlonne was released from San Quentin a while back. We are not concerned about this need for approval compromising the content or integrity of the show. The administration has shown great support for Ear Hustle, and we see no indication that they will make it difficult for us to pursue the podcast we’ve outlined from the start, sharing stories about day-to-day life in prison. Is Ear Hustle censored by San Quentin State Prison (SQSP) authorities?Įvery Ear Hustle episode is approved by prison administration as a matter of policy concerning outgoing media of any form from San Quentin.

This has been a learning process for all involved, and while our systems are improving, it’s still a ton of work to get each episode publish-ready. We appreciate listeners wanting to hear more episodes more often, but please keep in mind that producing a podcast from inside a prison (without internet or phone access) takes much more time than producing one on the outside. Two weeks between episodes is an eternity! Why does it take so long? You can also find the team on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. The Ear Hustle team works in San Quentin’s media lab and in the KQED office in San Francisco. in collaboration with the Prison Radio Association. The show is also broadcast to incarcerated communities, including in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation institutions and in the U.K. Ear Hustle won Radiotopia’s first Podquest in 2016 - a search for new story-driven podcast ideas - beating out more than 1,500 international entries. Today, episodes have been downloaded nearly 60 million times. The San Francisco Public Library selected the title for its One City One Book citywide community reading program in 2022.Įar Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary podcasts.

In addition, Ear Hustle has also inspired multiple creative endeavors, including the Metropolitan Museum of Arts’ “Songs from the Spirit” dance performance featuring music from the podcast.Įarlonne and Nigel are also the authors of This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life, a book inspired by the podcast and published by Crown/Random House.

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duPont-Columbia University Award for “shatter the myths about serving time and what happens afterwards.” Ear Hustle has also received honors from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, the Moran Center for Youth Advocacy, and is a two-time Peabody Award nominee.Įarlonne and Nigel have delivered commencement addresses for the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Bennington College, a keynote at Podcast Movement, and have discussed their work at the City Arts & Lectures and Commonwealth Club series in San Francisco, and at the Tribeca Festival in New York.

In 2020, Ear Hustle was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting - the first time the category was recognized - for bringing audiences “a consistently surprising and beautifully crafted series on life behind bars.” In 2021, Ear Hustle received an Alfred I. In 2019, Rahsaan “New York” Thomas joined Ear Hustle as a co-host inside San Quentin. Co-founded by Bay Area artist Nigel Poor alongside Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams - who were incarcerated at the time - the podcast now tells stories from inside prison and from the outside, post-incarceration. Ear Hustle brings you the daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from the outside, post-incarceration.Įar Hustle launched in 2017 as the first podcast created and produced in prison, featuring stories of the daily realities of life inside California’s San Quentin State Prison, shared by those living it.

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