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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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S1E12 ep. 11 - Hope
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…
Lost, Part 2
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,…
Lost, Part 1
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…
Justice for Some
We meet Dr. Beverly Jacobs in this episode, a specialist in indigenous law and a champion of Indigenous legal rights. She is all too familiar with the bias that is inherent in every aspect of our…
Security
What is it like, as an innocent family member, to interact with prison staff? What's it like to visit someone who is in jail? What do families endure to have a few precious face to face moments…
Fear and Fracture
Does the Canadian criminal justice system, for all the huge investment we make in it, produce the results we expect? It's a system that often breaks our loved ones and us in the process. Family…
Kids & Their Parents
Meet Marilee Sherry and Valerie Rhodes, two incredibly accomplished child welfare specialists from the Child Welfare Truth Telling Collective. Want to know what happens to a child when a parent is…
Family, Interrupted
Madeline, Gail and Jake reflect on how their relationships have shifted over time as the result of Jake's incarceration. Tania joins us to talk about how their family went through the prison journey…
Exposure
Madeline & Gail reflect on the stigma of having an incarcerated loved one. Familes are disrupted, often move away, they become secretive and they carry an outsized and misplaced burden of shame.…
Shockwaves Part 2
The shockwaves generated by a criminal charge are painful and do not really ever go away. In Shockwaves Part 2, you will meet Farhat, Dan, Mary and Nadine and the people they love. They will tell…
Shockwaves Part 1
What's it like to find out that someone you love has committed a crime? Not top of mind thinking for most people, unless you are a prison family member. If you are, those thoughts intrude on pretty…
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Coming July 29th 2025 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…
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Coming July 29th 2025 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…
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Prison Family has published 13 episodes since June 2025, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
Prison Family is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 49m.
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