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The Prison Radio Show has two time slots on CKUT 90.3 fm http://www.ckut.ca.* The first time slot is: On the second Thursday of every month between 5-6 pm the Prison Radio Show is part of CKUT’s Off The Hour. The second time slot is: The fourth Friday of every month between 11am and 12pm. Occasionally the Prison Radio Show will have an additional show during the fifth Friday. All audio on CKUT 90.3 fm is archived for a minimum of two months, so if you miss a show, you can download it at ckut.ca or here on the blog. Prison Radio has been on the air in Montreal for more than a decade. The show seeks to confront the invisibility of prisons and prisoner struggle, by focusing on the roots of incarceration, policing, and criminalization, and by challenging ideas about what prisons are and who ends up inside. Prison Radio is dedicated to programming that is directly collaborative with people who are currently incarcerated. This is in the interest of forging stronger ties between incarcerated and non-incarcerated people, ensuring that prisoners have direct control over their representation, and that our understandings of prisons be informed by those who live inside their walls.

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October 21, 2025

2026/06/01

Tonight, we're going to take gender diversity for granted. We're going to say that trans people are real, and we're going to talk about the facts that are behind linear stories. We'll be speaking to transactivists, legal scholars, as well as lawyers who work on this topic, to provide a different perspective than what's being discussed in corporate media.

October 7, 2025

2026/06/01

On the two-year anniversary of the latest escalation of violence in Gaza, this episode turns its focus to solidarity with the Palestinian people. We open with major breaking news: Israel's naval forces have intercepted a large international humanitarian flotilla — the largest of its kind yet — detaining approximately 3,500 activists from over 40 countries, including high-profile figures like Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan, as well as two Canadian citizens. A released American activist describes harrowing conditions in Israeli detention. We then move into our feature segment: a roundtable discussion marking the 50th anniversary of the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners.

September 23, 2025

2026/06/01

Today, we'll be airing a radio documentary we made back in May 2019.  Somehow, the documentary never made it into our archives, and so we wanted to share it here again. The documentary talks about the new prison for migrants that was being built at the time, and the alternatives, the detention program that was being rolled out alongside the prison construction project. It also talks about the resistance to the prison construction that happened in Montreal in Laval in 2018 and 2019.

September 9, 2025

2026/04/30

Today is the prisoner's justice state episode on prison radio show. This year we are celebrating 50 years of prisoners Justice Day. We will be airing audio from the prisoners justice day events that took place in Montreal on Prisoners Justice Day on Sunday, August 10th.

August 26, 2025

2026/04/30

This inaugural episode of a very special series called Prison Radio Internationale. From those of you who may be new listeners, Prison Radio is a bi-weekly show at CKUT that brings you news and stories about people who are incarcerated in prisons and struggling against the greater prison industrial complex. Usually our show focusses on issues based in where our listeners live.  In Canada and the United States. But this summer, 2 of our members were lucky enough to travel throughout Europe and do some deep dive reporting into the conditions of people facing the violence of prisons, policing, and borders there. We got to interview some amazing people and organizations who are on the front line of resistance against these car social systems in their local communities.  There is a lot we can learn from their work that can be applied to our situation in Canada. Welcome to Prison Radio International.

August 12, 2025

2026/04/30

This episode is focussing on prisoners justice day. It's the 50th prisoners justice day that just went by on Sunday, August 10th, and we are focussing this episode and highlighting what prisoners justice day is.

July 29, 2025

2026/04/30

This episode covers a panel discussion on prison labour in Canada. Key points include that prisoner pay has been frozen at a maximum of $6.90/day since 1981, that the work prisoners do is effectively forced labour with real economic value, and that there is an ongoing legal effort to have prisoners recognized as employees with the right to unionize. Panellists include a government investigator, academics, a formerly incarcerated activist, and a labour lawyer, all arguing that the current treatment of prisoner workers is exploitative and in need of reform.

July 15, 2025

2026/04/30

This episode covers the criminalization of Indigenous land defense, provides a news update on Ontario provincial prison conditions, and discusses policies and realities faced by incarcerated trans persons, hearing from lawyers, activists, and scholars working and advocating in this area.

July 1, 2025

2026/03/16

Today we're airing audio from the Final Straw Radio which airs on Asheville FM in North Carolina. Their show on June 23rd featured 2 interviews one talking about the annual "Shut'em Down Week of Action", called by jailhouse lawyer speak for December of this year and one talking with Monsour Owolabi sharing some perspectives on inside outside collaboration, the role of isolation in prisons as counterinsurgency, and the importance of transitional housing projects. We will start with the interview about JLS Jailhouse Lawyer Speak's Week of Action this interview features Courtney from the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee as well as Rock a communications bridge for JLS and residential manager at the JLS transition house. Rock talks about that transition house project in the interview as well. As always the audio from the previous show bleeds into the start of this one! We are trying to catch up with a year of shows that have been absent in our podcast feed and so we have been downloading directly from the CKUT archives and posting here. The way the archives work, there is often a minute or two of the previous show at the start of the hour.

June 17, 2025

2026/03/16

Today's episode features a book launch event that took place on April 11th at the Shift Centre. The book is titled "Defund: Conversations towards abolition" published by Haymarket Books. The book features the collection of interviews with prison abolitionist organizers and thinkers on how to bridge the divide between reform and abolition. Calvin John Smiley is the books author; he's also a professor of Sociology at City University in New York. We will hear today on the show from Calvin John smiley in conversation with Freeman of the Termite Collective you will also hear Kelly Struthers Montford introduced the speakers, but first here's the present radio show news compiled by one of our collective members. As always the audio from the previous show bleeds into the start of this one! We are trying to catch up with a year of shows that have been absent in our podcast feed and so we have been downloading directly from the CKUT archives and posting here. The way the archives work, there is often a minute or two of the previous show at the start of the hour.

May 20, 2025

2026/03/07

This episode focused on Palestinian prisoners and featured an interview with the Director of the International Committee of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, Rahid Ahmer, who is based in Nablus in the West Bank. As always the audio from the previous show bleeds into the start of this one! We are trying to catch up with a year of shows that have been absent in our podcast feed and so we have been downloading directly from the CKUT archives and posting here. The way the archives work, there is often a minute or two of the previous show at the start of the hour.

May 6, 2025

2026/03/06

This show was our funding drive special! We talked to folks on parole and people in prison about why CKUT and the Prison Radio Show matters to them. Then the hosts share a bit about why they care about the show and their motivations for volunteering with the station.

April 8, 2025

2026/03/06

This episode featured audio from a panel discussion that happened in March 2025 in Montreal. It was part of the Rafales Anarchist Learning Camp, organized by the Revolutionary Anarchist Organization. The panel was on police and prison abolition and featured Mélina from the Comité Autonome du Travail du Sexe, Marquis Bey who is a professor of Black Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and English at Northwestern University, Fallon who once faced terrorism charges and spent a year in jail in Mexico, and Cedar from the Hamilton, Ontario based Barton Prison Solidarity Project. The panel was facilitated by Ted Rutland, a professor at Concordia University in Montreal. Some speakers on the panel spoke in English and some spoke in French.

March 25, 2025

2026/03/02

This episode features a special interview with Maryam Kashani, an associate professor at the University of Illinois and an organizer with Believers Bail Out, a "community led effort to bailout Muslims in pretrial and immigration incarceration towards abolition". Professor Kashani published the book Medina by the Bay in 2023, which was "an ethnocinematic examination of how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics." https://www.maryamkashani.com

February 11, 2025

2026/02/28

This episode featured audio from organizers with the International Coalition for Palestinian Hostages, including their spokesperson Dr. Mai Hussein. This exclusive Prison Radio Show interview was recorded in August 2024. The audio is taken straight from the CKUT archives and includes a small bit of the show that airs before PRS.