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Ear Hustle
Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison. Hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods co-created the show that launched in 2017 while Earlonne was incarcerated at San...
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The Loop Ep. 1: The Five Rules of Drama Club
In the first episode of Ear Hustle’s all-new, all-New-York series, Nigel and Earlonne head to Brooklyn to hang out with incarcerated kids and staff at...
Starting Next Week: The Loop
Next week we’re dropping the first episode of our six-part series about kids who are involved, one way or another, in New York City’s criminal justice...
Catch a Kite: On Tour
What textures do you miss in prison? How is menopause handled behind bars? What makes you feel dignified? These are just some of the questions we coll...
Ear Hustle Live! 2023
At the end of 2023, Ear Hustle embarked on its first live tour — a celebration of our 100th episode. Nigel and Earlonne shared favorite moments from t...
Revisiting “Future on Ice”
Revisiting our 2018 episode “Future on Ice,” about the lives of immigrants in San Quentin.
Being an immigrant in an American prison can p...
San Quentin: The Magazine, Issue 3
The candy craze that’s sweeping the prison. What happens when your cellie dies? An update to our continuing coverage on jeans. And, why some people li...
Revisiting “12 Hours on the Yard”
Cat Schuknecht, Ear Hustle’s Senior Producer at the California Institution for Women, listens back to our 2023 episode “12 Hours on the Yard.” Inspire...
30 Days
Tam has been in prison for two decades, and is facing a third. But now, there’s a small chance a judge could send him home, time served. For one month...
I See the Castle
Recently, Earlonne was drafted for a mysterious task: to pose for a photo with Nigel — wearing Minnie Mouse ears — while waving a fake “churro” in the...
Revisiting "Cracked Windshield"
For the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, Rahsaan revisits “Cracked Windshield,” an episode we did for the first anniversary. The Ear Hustle...
No Other Word for It
Women serving serious time for having killed someone while driving drunk form a distinct culture in prison, and often struggle to fit in. We visit two...
Bell Pepper
It’s our first-ever listener-inspired “mystery” episode! This time, Nigel's in the dark — and Earlonne has a new co-host. They hope you enjoy this cut...
Why Doesn't Ear Hustle Talk About People's Crimes?
Listeners had a lot to say about two recent episodes featuring residents of California’s death row, especially “Different Sides of the Earth,” which f...
Different Sides of the Earth
Twenty women are currently serving a death sentence at the Central California Women’s Facility. Like the men we met at San Quentin in our previous epi...
Slam That Door
San Quentin's death row has been cleared out; soon it'll be renovated into an honor dorm. We make one last visit with four men who, between them, spen...
Super Fun Birthday Story
For some, it’s a weeklong bonanza; others keep it on the down-low. Whether you’re in prison or not, how you celebrate your birthday says a lot about w...
Spark Plug
Spark Plug wanted a life straight out of a Hollywood movie: Live fast and die a legend. But that’s not quite how things worked out.
This...
New Episodes Start Next Week!
The Ear Hustle team has been hard at work on a whole batch of new stories from San Quentin, the California Institution for Women, the Central Californ...
Revisiting “Camp Grace”
Next up in our “sleeper hits” series, our editor Amy listens back to “Camp Grace,” a 2021 episode that she had started producing until she was sidelin...
From the Vault: Crew No. 7
California relies on incarcerated firefighters to fight fires like the ones that have engulfed Southern California this month. But once these men and...
Revisiting “August 21, 1971”
In the next installment in our “sleeper hits” series, Earlonne listens back to the episode “August 21, 1971,” about George Jackson and one of the most...
Last Memory: Linda
Linda’s mom brought her to a Catholic Mass because she had a sense her daughter was on the verge of something, and needed help. Thirty-seven years int...
Last Memory: Leisha
Leisha didn't plan on getting pregnant. And she certainly didn't plan on giving birth in prison. But on the day those two red lines showed up, Leisha...
The Wrong Line of Business
Earlonne's here with his "mystery" episode, and it's a doozy. He tells Nigel a redemption story wrapped in a drug-trafficking story, and, along the wa...
My Understanding of This Place: Nigel & Earlonne
Over the past two episodes we’ve been hearing about “memory places” at San Quentin: ordinary-seeming spots that become extraordinary through the eyes...
My Understanding of This Place, Part 2
In the second part of this two-part series, Nigel reveals to Earlonne the final stops in her memory-tour of San Quentin, culminating in an exploration...
My Understanding of This Place, Part 1
Nigel — with help from our team inside San Quentin — has been cooking up an episode that her co-host knows nothing about. Without giving too much away...
Election!
Incarcerated people in California can’t vote, but that doesn't mean they aren’t tracking electoral politics as closely as many of us on the outside ar...
A Little Streets, a Little Romance, a Little Deception
Wali was on his way to make a life-altering decision when a book made him reconsider. Shaka’s 40 years on death row were shaped by three books picked...
Comfortable Inside
It can be hard to admit, but some people are more comfortable inside prison than out. We meet people who keep coming back and people who’ve stopped tr...
Coming Up This Season
The countdown is on! Earlonne and Nigel give listeners a taste of what’s in store this season: some controversy, some mystery, and (maybe) some laught...
Ear Hustle Extra: San Quentin: The Magazine, Issue 2
Our team inside San Quentin explores the complicated acts of crying and Hula dancing in prison, reports on the joys and sorrows of a new prison clothi...
Ear Hustle Extra: Revisiting “This Place”
Celebrating our 100th episode last year got the Ear Hustle team thinking about all the stories we’ve told since 2017. Over the next few months, EHers...
Ear Hustle Presents: The Moth
In this collaboration with the venerable live-storytelling project The Moth, we share one man’s story about using a medical condition to break the iso...
Ear Hustle Presents: You Didn’t See Nothin
We’re introducing you to one of our favorite recent podcast discoveries. In 1997, a racially motivated attack and its aftermath roiled Chicago. “You D...
Daughters
What’s it like to serve out a prison sentence alongside your mom? At the Central California Women’s Facility, a handful of mom-daughter combos are doi...
Crocasacks
When he was growing up, gang life gave Larry confidence, purpose, and an identity. But after years behind bars, the affiliation lost its luster. He te...
Catch a Kite Nationwide
For our latest Catch a Kite episode, we’re taking advantage of a new tool: the electronic tablets that recently became available in 400+ jails and pri...
Moms
In honor of Mother’s Day, some decidedly un-Hallmark-y stories about incarceration and motherhood.
Thanks to Mary Behun, Reggie, and Kat...
Hope Lacquer
Inside prison, as well as out, some of us cling to stuff and some of us let go. In this episode: two cell-block neighbors engage in a gentle dispute,...