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Joey's Phone Call Home

Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Length: 00:05:05

Joey, an incarcerated teen, calls home. Read the full description.
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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.

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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

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Review of Joey's Phone Call Home

When 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.

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Review of Joey's Phone Call Home

I'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.

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Broadcast History

Originally boradcast in Portland, ME on Blunt.

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