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Here & NowHere & Now for June 14, 2024On "Here & Now," Dant'e Cottingham describes arrests of Waupun Correctional Institution staff after inmate deaths, Wisconsin prison inmates seeking to recover from addiction face long waits for treatment and Reiko Ramos discuss Diverse & Resilient supporting the wellbeing of LGBTQ Wisconsin residents. Plus, political panelists Bill McCoshen and Scot Ross unpack federal and state races as Milwaukee prepares for the 2024 RNC. Listen to the entire episode of "Here & Now" for June 14, 2024. For transcripts, video, and more information about this episode please visit our episode page at:
https://pbswisconsin.org/podcast_episode/here-now-for-june-14-2024/?seriesID=599212024-06-1426 min
Badgerland JournalHistory of Prisons W/ Dant'e CottinghamIn this episode, we have a special guest, Dant'e Cottingham, a community organizer for EXPO (Ex-incarcerated People Organizing) Wisconsin. We will discuss a bit about the prison history in Wisconsin however it will not be our normal format. The majority of the podcast is dedicated to more current issues as Dant'e talks about his own experience with incarceration in addition to the organizations he now works with to help people before and after incarceration. We also discuss proposed reforms to the Wisconsin constitution that were just voted on in the previous election. Listen in to learn more about prisons...2023-05-171h 14
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Tawanda Vandroff from behind Prison walls.When society fails to provide the tools for the children to rise and not only have dreams but to achieve them it falls to the responsible adults to Bridge that Gap. Tawanda Vandroff is a concerned Citizen who not only saw this void but built an Organisation to address it. Here at Incarcerate US we were extremely honoured to have Tawanda on the show, as you listen you will feel the passion and urgency she embodies and uses to pursue quality of life for all the youth, that Mass Incarceration is a thief, a manipulative and clever thief stealing young...2018-10-1318 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Lakeisha C Muhammad, from behind Prison walls.SOLO is birthed and encouraged by our personal journey, As a wife with a loved one incarcerated who has been maintaining outside responsibilities with at one point no real support system to lean on, no community resources to utilize with legal questions and other supportive needs, I personally can relate to what other families are facing everyday. The heart of me wants to support families in similar circumstances in any way possible with resources and keep them informed about what is going on behind the wall, events, hearings, new bills, laws, etcetera.
About The Solo Project
SOLO is a non...2018-10-1320 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Marlon from behind Prison walls.Advocate. Writer. Educator. Public Speaker. Media Maker. #BePrecedential
Marlon Peterson is an international social and criminal justice advocate, writer, organizational trainer, and educator who spent 10 years in New York State prisons. He is the host of the podcast, Decarcerated, a Soros Justice Fellow, Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, a 2015 Ebony Magazine Power 100 honoree, and TED Resident.
Marlon is the host of the Decarcerated Podcast. He is also the founder and chief re-imaginator of The Precedential Group, a social justice consulting firm, and a 2015 recipient of the prestigious Soros Justice Fellowship.
Ebony Magazine has named him one of America’s 100 most influential an...2018-10-1319 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Andrea Jones Fordd from behind Prison walls.As the wife of an incarcerated man Andrea learned quickly that the Criminal Justice System was anything but Just.
Andrea Jones-Fordd – As a avid and passionate Advocate of Prison Reform Andrea spends her time fighting for the rights of the incarcerated, their loved ones and friends. This is not a path chosen by the faint of heart, it’s a challenge that demands inner strength, commitment and dedication. Here she shares her hopes for reform, her mission and her goals.
What is Inmate Lives Matter?
Inmate Lives Matter is a group for helping to organize demonstrations and giving a voice to t...2018-10-1320 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Stephen Barbee from behind Prison walls.About Stephen Barbee
Stephen’s earlier years were filled with promises. He was raised up in a Christian home which wasn’t easy; however, Pastor Leo Barbee Jr. and Juanita Anne were Godly parents and role models.
Stephen was a standout football player at Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas, graduating in 1982. He went on to earn All-American honors as a running back at Highland Community College in Highland, Kansas. He led junior colleges in all purpose yards in the 1984 season averaging 177 yards per game. In 1985, Stephen attended Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska; played football and baseball for the scho...2018-10-1318 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Prof. Emeritus Doug Carnine Author, from behind Prison walls.Friendship & Support For Meditation, Mindfulness, & Kindness Facilitated Transcendence While in Tucker Max
The Feed Kindness, Starve Harm project focuses on why and how to fuse mindfulness, meditation and kindness into everyday living. It grew out of initial correspondence between Doug Carnine, a professor emeritus from the University of Oregon and Roy Tester, an inmate in a maximum security prison.
Roy wanted to know more about Buddhism and meditation. Roy admitted to his crimes of retaliation against abusive parents and sought ways to transcend the prison experience with mindful kindness through Doug’s supportive friendship. Doug’s four-decade personal practice of mind...2018-10-1320 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Pastor Brian Cole from behind Prison walls.From Dope dealer to Hope Dealer
Pastor Brian Cole (Knecht) – After 30+ years involved in Satanism and the occult, 27+ years of incarceration (4 as a juvenile, 23 as an adult), 25+ years as a drug addict, and caught up in many other addictions such as cutting, pornography, sex, dungeons and dragons, etc., in 2009 after being suicidal and almost succeeding on 3 occasions, I was arrested for the last time! At the age of 44 I had finally “come to myself,” and through a faith based drug and alcohol program offered in the County Jail, I came to know the Truth of Jesus Christ and was born again...2018-10-1320 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Glen E. Martin from behind Prison walls.Glenn E. Martin is an American criminal justice reform advocate, who served six years in a New York state prison, and is the founder and now former president of Just Leadership USA (JLUSA). JLUSA aims to cut the U.S. correctional population in half by 2030 through advocacy campaigns, leadership training, and member engagement. He also co-founded the campaign, Education from the Inside Out Coalition, a national campaign working to remove barriers to higher education
facing students while they are in prison and once they are released.
Martin regularly comments on criminal justice in the media, including CNN, CSPAN, Al Jazeera...2018-10-1320 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Mary Buser, Author of Lockdown On Rikers from behind Prison walls.Mary Buser LCSW, worked as a clinical social worker in the Mental Health Department on Rikers Island during the Giuliani administrations celebrated crackdown on crime
She began her Rikers sojourn as a student intern at the Rose Singer Center, where she provided therapy to incarcerated women, including a support group for mothers in the island’s nursery.
After earning her Master’s degree, she returned to Rikers to work at the George Motchan Detention Center, a maximum security facility for male detainees. Here, she provided both individual and group therapy to the general population, as well as to the jail’s ment...2018-10-1320 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Joshua Kangley Author from behind Prison walls.Joshua Kangley Author and Motivational Speaker
Allowing your past to define your future is responsible for the immense pain and low self-esteem thousands upon thousands of individuals live with every day, but it does not have to be this way.
I was locked up at an earlier point in my life and that experience has made a huge impact on me. I used to run as far away as I could from my past, but I’ve recently learned that in accepting it I could use it to help others. This has led me to write a book with the in...2018-10-1318 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Skylar Economy from behind Prison wallsSkylar received her B.A. in Film and Media Studies at UC Berkeley in May of 2016. As a student at UC Berkeley, she served as Co-Executive Director of CalTV, Cal’s premiere student-run TV channel; and as a founder and leader of several film and media organizations at UC Berkeley.
Skylar's Bio
As an intern at CNN for the two summers during undergrad, Skylar worked on over 20 documentaries that have aired. She also served as a film program coordinator and mentor to high school students in Bosnia for the Mediterranean Film Festival, and taught photography to young women in Syrian re...2018-10-1320 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Jerome Dillard (EXPO) from behind Prison walls.EXPO (EX-Prisoners Organizing)
Mr. Jerome Dillard has been hired to be the statewide lead organizer for EXPO (EX-Prisoners Organizing). Click here for an excellent article he wrote.
Jerome Dillard has more than 20 years of experience working with formerly-incarcerated people, and with people in prison. He is a founder of Voices Beyond Bars in Madison (and Voices Beyond Bars is a founding member of MOSES). Jerome has worked for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, and has most recently been the director of re-entry programs for Dane County.
Jerome takes inspiration from this quote from Nelson Mandela, who also spent time behind...2018-10-1320 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Wolf Sittler from behind Prison walls.Epicenter is a group for those who have loved ones serving excessive sentences within TDCJ, whose crimes were committed as juveniles. We are here to support each other as well as Texas Second Look 2019.
This bill will pave the way for major parole reform for juvenile offenders that have languished in the system for decades. “Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.” Acts 16:26 NKJV
My goal is to make the criminal justice system more fair, effective and accountable. We need t...2018-10-1320 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastHost Dante Cottingham Interviews Prof. Azzurra Crispino from behind Prison walls.Prison Abolition Prisoner Support (PAPS)
Azzurra co-founded Prison Abolition Prisoner Support (PAPS), which is a pen pal to prisoners organization which focuses on peaceful street demonstrations, bringing new people into the fold of writing prisoners, and bridging the gap between inmates and their families, media and attorneys working on prison issues.
The prison-industrial complex, in all its forms, including; immigrant detention centers, city and county jails, as well as state and federal prisons, must be abolished. This is a social evil that must be eradicated. The prison-industrial complex does not keep the community safe; it profits the elite while ravaging...2018-10-1320 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Gloria Woods author of Broken Shackles ( A Mothers Journey) from behind Prison walls.Gloria Woods is the mother of an incarcerated daughter. She talks about the difficulties and the road to healing for them both, her inspiration for the book ‘Broken Shackles’ . Gloria talks about mass incarceration and what she believes could be part of the solution. Gloria is also a Motivational Speaker, Rejected for a Purpose outreach.
Gloria Woods has a passion for people particularly single mothers incarcerated and their families. Her passion was birthed out of the struggles she faced as she provided love and care for her three children without any help from their Father.
Prison Ministry
Prior to this Glor...2018-10-1319 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastHost Dante Cottingham Interviews Shenandoah Chefalo Author, from behind Prison walls.Incarceration, Addiction and Homelessness. What they have to do with foster care, and how we can change outcomes?
In the United States we incarcerate 1.6 million people. From that, over 1.2 million are believed to be former foster youth. That is around 70-75% of all incarcerated individuals have spent time in foster care. When we look at the overall outcomes of the child welfare system, it becomes increasingly clear that it remains at the heart of many social issues and concerns in our Nation.
Across the country, local, state and federal governments are spending billions of dollars on incarcerations, addiction and homelessness...2018-10-1319 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Chef Ron Freeman from behind Prison walls.Entrepreneur and former Prisoner Ron Freeman is changing the standard for Inmate Food
Born Ronald Freeman to Brenda and Ronald Freeman Sr., in Phoenix, AZ. He moved to Inglewood, CA, where he would soon find his footing in the business world.
This entrepreneur doesn't have any fancy degrees, but he is truly savvy when it comes to owning and running a successful business. He does however, have a sales and marketing background by hard work and determination. He was never privy to a ‘silver spoon,’ so he had to make it the best way he knew how, with shear grit and...2018-10-1320 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Lina Trevino Co-founder of Inmate Lives Matter (Texas Chapter) from behind Prison walls.Incarcerate US Podcast Host Dante Cottingham Interviews Lina Trevino Co Founder of Inmate Lives Matter (Texas Chapter) from behind Prison walls. Dante is America's 1st and Only Incarcerated Podcast Host.
How was the Organisation founded?
Lina Trevino – Inmate Lives Matter was founded by 2 passionate prison wives just under a year ago. We decided to do something constructive with our time while our loved ones were away. We provide support and advocacy. We teach family members how to advocate for their loved ones and provide resources. We also have an office address and corrlinks set up if an inmate who does no...2018-10-1215 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews Kat Warner Criminal Justice Advocate from behind Prison walls.Incarcerate US Podcast Host Dant’e Cottingham Interviews Kat Warner Criminal Justice Advocate from behind Prison walls. Dant’e is America’s 1st and Only Incarcerated Podcast Host.
Advocate and Law Student
Kat Warner is currently pursuing her Criminal Justice Degree. Her personal experiences have changed her life’s journey and put her on the path of Advocacy for prison reform and re entry. In this podcast she talks about the problems within the Justice System both whilst in prison and upon release.
One of the many things this podcast channel tries to do is to provide a platform for the voic...2018-10-1220 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastDante Cottingham Interviews April Segura McFarland from behind Prison walls.Incarcerate US Podcast Host Dante Cottingham Interviews April Segura McFarland from behind Prison walls. Dante is America's 1st and Only Incarcerated Podcast Host.
Activist, Tutor, Advocate and Mom
Being a busy mother of three does not deter April from being one of the most pro-active prison reform activist’s on the planet. From teaching classes to inmates in a work release center, cooking meals for guys who come out and work on vehicles through a program called “Charity Auto”, and then just befriending those incarcerated and listening to their stories as much as she can.
Northern Lighthouse Ministry
The program that A...2018-10-1217 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastHost Dante Cottingham Interviews James D Kronenberger former President Ohio Cure from behind Prison walls.Incarcerate US Podcast Host Dante Cottingham Interviews James D Kronenberger former President Ohio Cure from behind Prison walls. Dante is Americas 1st and Only Incarcerated Podcast Host.
Fair Treatment Reform & Re-entry’s mission is to raise public awareness about the criminal justice system through education and dissemination of information.
We advocate for a fair, just, and transparent parole process and encourage State lawmakers to support these goals. We believe in the power of inmates to change and think they should have a fair chance at justice. Fair Treatment Reform & Re-entry also focuses on assisting those released from prison with effective re...2018-10-1220 min
America's 1st and Only Prisoner Hosted PodcastIncarcerate US Podcast with Dante CottinghamIncarcerate Us Prison Podcast Introduction - Americas 1st Social Media Prison Platform.
In this Podcast Series our host Dant'e Cottingham a Prisoner in the WI. Dept of Corrections interviews Concerned Citizens, Activists and Advocates who have been affected by Mass Incarceration or are pursuing Prison Reform.
www.incarcerateus.com
Email: incarcerateus.podcast@mail.com
To contact Dante direct:
Dante Cottingham #259241
PO Box 233
Black River Falls, WI 546152018-10-1205 min
IncarcerateUSDant'e Cottingham #259241 - Mass Incarceration and the People Fighting for ChangeIncarcerate US Podcast Host Dant'e Cottingham talks about the progress of the podcast so far, the incredible guests he has encountered and the future for the show.2017-08-2806 min