ReEntry Stories
Every year in Ohio, more than 20,000 people are released from prison, 1,500 in Montgomery County alone. When they return to the community, they often they have trouble finding jobs, housing, education and mental health services.
The Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO started a radio and podcast series called ReEntry Stories to give returned citizens the chance to tell their stories by presenting conversations between people who were once in prison.
Latest Episodes
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To see Justice Michael Donnelly speak, RSVP to lheller2@udayton.edu by the end of the day on Sept. 10.
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Did you know what post-incarceration syndrome is? An Ohio researcher spoke with WYSO during Mental Health Awareness Month about her advocacy to have the mental illness formally recognized.
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WYSO’s Mary Evans sat down with exoneree Dean Gillispie to discuss how regional advocates helped him win his case and how he kept hope when he was wrongfully imprisoned.
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Knox came to Dayton in 2024 to speak at an event for the Ohio Innocence Project, a local nonprofit whose mission is to free every innocent person convicted of a crime they didn’t commit.
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We meet Sarah Davis, who, with her husband Patrick Davis, started The Fringe Coffee House.
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We meet Auria Morales, who found a helping hand at the Fringe Coffee House in Hamilton, when she got out of prison a year ago.
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We meet Lorrie Carter, the first employee of The Fringe Coffee House in Hamilton, a place where formerly incarcerated citizens can find work and the help they need to re-enter society.
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Mary Evans interviews Patrick Davis of the Fringe Coffeehouse in Hamilton – where he and his wife are offering a range of much-needed services to formerly incarcerated citizens.
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Kamisha Thomas is a filmmaker, writer, director, co-founder of the Returning Artists Guild in Columbus and a returned citizen. Kamisha was a filmmaker before she went to prison, but finished her short film while she was inside. There were a lot of projects in prison, she says, that helped her continue her filmmaking.
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Today on ReEntry Stories we meet Azizi Carter, the third in our series about women who took advantage of training opportunities in prison and made it a stepping stone to a new life.