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Death-row radio: Jesus, heavy metal, and rom-coms

Death-row radio: Jesus, heavy metal, and rom-coms

FromCity Cast Houston


Death-row radio: Jesus, heavy metal, and rom-coms

FromCity Cast Houston

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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Jan 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The Tank, 106.5 FM, isn’t an ordinary radio station. It’s run by prisoners, for prisoners, at the maximum-security Allan B. Polunsky Unit north of Houston.
Keri Blakinger, a prisons-and-jails reporter for the Marshall Project, tells Lisa about the Tank, its wild mix of programming, and what it means to some of the most isolated men in Texas.

Read Keri's piece in the Marshall Project here. 

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Released:
Jan 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Food, culture, news and nature in the sweaty Bayou City. Join Host Lisa Gray and the City Cast Houston team as we celebrate and interrogate this sprawling place with our favorite journalists, thinkers, leaders, neighbors and gadflies. Learn more and subscribe to our daily morning newsletter at houston.citycast.fm.