“Walled In” is a podcast co-produced by Street Roots and The Exiled Voice. In each episode, co-hosts Emily Green and Joshua Wright explore a different, lesser-known aspect of what it means to be incarcerated in America.
Walled In podcast
Walled In podcast | After prison, ‘I had to relearn how to touch people’
Episode 2: Former prisoners discuss how absence of touch and rules against intimacy affected them while they were incarcerated, and an expert explains the science behind touch starvation
Walled In podcast | ‘It was a nightmare’: Prison violence and its lasting toll
Episode 1: Former prisoners share violent events they experienced in prison, and a criminologist discusses how even indirect exposure to violence can have lingering effects on prisoners long after they’re released