Sending Messages: The Podcast

Sending Messages: The Podcast


Latest Episodes

87 - A Cold Christmas and Other Stories
December 19, 2023

This year the students in Sending Messages tried to make a holiday podcast, but didn't really get too far. Instead, enjoy poetry and letters about loss, lockup, and love from AktivE, Tina, Static, Sca

Episode 86 - The House
May 05, 2023

Join us on this house tour. Walk through the halls, peek in the rooms, and climb the stairs. This isn't just any house. This is a house made of memories. Bricks carved out of trauma, doors cracked by

Episode 85 - Stolen and Lost
April 03, 2023

What has been stolen? Who has been lost? Are there times they are the same things? This episode the Sending Messages girls discuss the things that have been taken away in their lives. Both tangible it

Episode 84 - Perfection
February 21, 2023

This episode, Bhetti, Skarr and Tina Posole talk with their producer Adam about what perfection is like as a young girl in Secure Care, with everyone watching. this episode also features poetry by St

Episode 83 - Halloween 2022
October 31, 2022

Happy Halloween! This episode, the youth from Decker Lake bring you stories, poetry, interviews and music all themed all about monsters, nightmares, and fear. Virtuosity, Dawn Breaker, Rambollo, K-One

Episode 82 - Greatest Hits
October 27, 2022

This episode is a compilation for a research project about how the true stories and recollections by incarcerated youth can change attitudes about their situations to the public at large. While this e

Episode 81 - Just Playing Around
September 16, 2022

The mischeif we get into as kids has a way of spinning out of control. The same behaviors that once seemed innocent now echo very real consequences. Freeway DK, N. and P sit down and discuss everythin

Episode 80 - Trapped
April 25, 2022

When have you felt trapped? What did you do to overcome it? How did you escape? In this episode, our host Dawn Breaker shares stories from his peers about moments of weakness, feeling stuck and backed

Episode 79 - Telling Stories
March 24, 2022

What does it mean to hear someone's story? To understand what they were going through or to compare their story with your story? It could lead to greater understanding, but thats up to the listener.

#78: Blue
February 28, 2020

Defeat is like loss, in that you end up missing something. But unlike loss, defeat feels like your own fault. Eight pieces about the being stuck in cycles, escaping through the wrong doorways, and searching for meaning in the dark. Original pieces...