Life Jolt

CBC

Life Jolt — prison slang for a life sentence — examines the lives of women navigating Canada’s correctional system. Our team gained unprecedented access to the Grand Valley Institution prison — the federal pen for women in Ontario — for a full year. We followed women going into prison for the first time, spoke with lifers who have been there for years, and parolees as they left. Hosted by Rosemary Green, a former inmate herself, Life Jolt focuses on individual women’s stories and the realities of prison life, and explores a wide range of issues including parenting behind bars, segregation, the over-representation of Indigenou...

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Life Jolt

Episodes (11)

Oct 26, 2021 Introducing: Written Off
Sep 13, 2021 Introducing: Ear Hustle
Jun 21, 2021 Introducing: Ideas from the Trenches: The Resilience of Incarcerated Women

Life Jolt

Oct 26, 2021
43½ minutes
39 MB

“Untitled.” Written by Jimmy Wu. Performed by Randall Park. Jimmy runs the organization that saved his life years ago when he was a youth who felt lost in the system: InsideOUT Writers. Today, he’s confronting the pain and effects of his incarceration while still managing to set an example for his InsideOUT Writers family. “If I was never introduced to this outlet through writing, I wouldn’t be here.” - Jimmy Wu. More episodes are available at http://link.chtbl.com/writtenoff

Life Jolt

Introducing: Written Off

CBC

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