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Prison Family

Prison Family

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What’s it like to find out that someone you love has committed a crime, has hurt someone? Not top of mind thinking for most people, unless you are a prison family member. If you are, those thoughts intrude on pretty much every waking moment. People that we love have harmed someone else. That hurts. They have also harmed us, emotionally, financially, sometimes physically. This series explores the impacts of incarceration on secondary victims - family members - who are innocent of any crime but are often victimized by the system that exists to punish the crime they didn’t commit. Here you will meet family members of incarcerated people and subject matter experts who are rock stars in the criminal justice world.

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  • ep. 11 - Hope
    Oct 7 2025

    In spite of it all, there is hope. It pokes through all of this darkness like sunbeams, despite the best efforts of a dark system to hold the light back. In this episode, get to know MOMS, Mothers Offering Mutual Support, founded in Ontario in 2012. Over the years, MOMS has held countless hands and dried the tears of female family members walking this "journey nobody wants to take". And meet Chris Brown, internationally known musician who founded and who continues to nurture Pros & Cons Prison Arts Program, founded in Ontario in 2011. These wonderful and tireless individuals remind us daily that hope wins.

    Email us @ prisonfamilypodcast@gmail.com

    Instagram: www.instagram.com/prisonfamilypod/en

    MOMS Ottawa: www.momsottawa.com

    Pros & Cons Prison Arts Program: www.prosandconsprogram.com

    Cdn Families & Corrections Network: www.cfcn-rcafd.org

    Office of the Corrections Investigator: https://oci-bec.gc.ca/

    Theme music is Go Funk Yourself. Listen on Paint in the Forest from Pros and Cons Prison Arts Program. Recorded at Joyceville Institution.

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    56 mins
  • Lost, Part 2
    Sep 30 2025

    Trigger Warning: This episode deals with death by neglect in an Ontario institution.

    We are joined by Jennifer to tell us the story of her funny, beloved brother Bill.

    Prepare to fall in love, both with her and with Bill.

    Email us @ prisonfamilypodcast@gmail.com

    Instagram: www.instagram.com/prisonfamilypod/en

    MOMS Ottawa: www.momsottawa.com

    Pros & Cons Prison Arts Program: www.prosandconsprogram.com

    Cdn Families & Corrections Network: www.cfcn-rcafd.org

    Office of the Corrections Investigator: https://oci-bec.gc.ca/

    Theme music is Lost. Listen on Undisclosed Location from Pros and Cons Prison Arts Program. Recorded at Grand Valley Women's Institution.

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    40 mins
  • Lost, Part 1
    Sep 23 2025

    Trigger Warning: This episode deals with needless death and suicide.

    Nadine tells us about her precious 19 year old son, not convicted of any crime, who was tortured inside the Edmonton Remand Centre and took his own life to avoid further pain.

    Yusuf tells us about his brother, Solieman, who was callously beaten to death by a group of prison guards at the Toronto East Detention Centre, while waiting for a bed in a mental health hospital.

    Email us @ prisonfamilypodcast@gmail.com

    Instagram: www.instagram.com/prisonfamilypod/en

    MOMS Ottawa: www.momsottawa.com

    Pros & Cons Prison Arts Program: www.prosandconsprogram.com

    Cdn Families & Corrections Network: www.cfcn-rcafd.org

    Office of the Corrections Investigator: https://oci-bec.gc.ca/

    Theme music is How Deep in the Valley. Listen on Postcards from the County from Pros and Cons Prison Arts Program. Recorded at Joyceville Institution.

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    39 mins
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