Joey's Phone Call Home
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Length: 00:05:05
Also in the Incarcerated Youth Speak Out series
Illegal Mail
(00:08:47)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
For students locked up in Maine's Long Creek Youth Development Center passing notes is a crime... and an art form. Jacorey investigates.
My Name Is Ryan
(00:04:53)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Weed, cocaine, morphine, oxycontin, crack, Ryan has tried them all. Once he developed a tolerance for one, he just moved on to the next. Now he's incarcerated, serving time ...
Speaking to My Heart
(00:06:24)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
When Nikki became a mother of two at the age of seventeen she promised to leave her life of drugs and crime behind. It was a promise she couldn't keep.
Lovesick and Locked Up
(00:09:19)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Matt and Cassie are addicted to drugs, alcohol - and each other.
The School of Hard Knocks
(00:04:05)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
When KC was eleven her mother kicked her out of the house. Forced to figure out how to survive on her own, she turned to drug dealing and prostitution.
Voting Behind Bars
(00:02:28)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
The voices of incarcerated first-time voters (and ardent non-voters) from the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine.
My Sentence
(00:04:08)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
An experimental look at what it's like to be committed to the Long Creek Youth Development Center.
My Criminal Life
(00:04:33)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
This dreamy feature puts listeners in the mind of Mark, a young man who feels hopeless against the cycles of drugs and violence in his life.
What I did for Drugs
(00:04:47)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Two young women tell their stories of drug addiction.
Two Teen Addicts
(00:06:24)
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Jeremy interviews Mark about addiction. They are both teenagers and recovering addicts.
Related Pieces
Piece Description
Listen to Joey, an inmate at the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, ME, call home to talk to his mother and sister.
7 Comments
|
Review of Joey's Phone Call HomeWhen i was in there, i saw so many guys come out after a phone call and start crying from whatever news they got. These guys im talking about, here are a few examples, one of my buddies has 23 assault charges, another was just a straight BAMF, one of the most feared guys in there, and once you find out your going to Dayone, or Mainstay for a year, or some other placement, it sux. Or that your court date has been postponed, or that you need to stay in lockup for another 3 weeks so i pych evaluation can be done, or because of a brawl you were in at the mess hall caused you to get commited until your 21. Guys there get phone calls like that everyday, and for a facility full of maines worst juvenile criminals, theres alot of hidden emotions all of over the place. |
|
Review of Joey's Phone Call HomeI've been in love with Joey ever since I heard his "Pee in the Pudding" piece on This American Life. This recorded phone call is not all that remarkable in terms of content: there's no drama, no punchline/gut-wrenching moment. It's just a kid calling his mom from jail. That's why it's great. I think it would make a nice addition to a show about incraceration, or perhaps about the telephone. |
Broadcast History
Originally boradcast in Portland, ME on Blunt.
Related Website
Of 5 purchasers of this piece...
- 3 also bought:
Nick: Home School to High School (00:16:53) - 2 also bought:
Leaving the Mountains (00:01:35) - 2 also bought:
Jehovah's Witness (00:05:22) - 2 also bought:Don't You Have Some Homework To Do? (00:02:20)
- 2 also bought:Speaking to My Heart (00:06:24)
Kwabena Adomako Amankwah
Posted on August 30, 2007 at 03:08 PM | Permalink
Review of Joey's Phone Call Home
Joey's Phone Call Home
I love this piece so much because it shows a connection with a family whose going threw a problem. The family problem is that Joey, the speaker, is going to rehab for a unknown reason. But even though he is facing something like this he is still trying to seek support from his family and his family is giving it. This piece shows love and realness. Not a lot of family?s show this bond and love, but this one do and I admire that
-Adomako