Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution

Series produced by renee wilde

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In this series WYSO went into a women's prison on the West Side of Dayton, Ohio to teach inmates basic recording and interviewing skills. The women interviewed other inmates and the resulting tapes were shaped into stories by two producers from WYSO who taught the class.

The other half of the stories produced by Lewis Wallace can be found on the WYSO site.


7 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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First hand accounts from women in prison

  • Added: Sep 11, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:03
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Inmate Melody Williams interviews fellow prisoner Aimee Wissman about her heroin addiciton. For Aimee, who is an artist, heroin was a way to emulat...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Melody William's spent the first 18 months of her life sentence in lock-down.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:55
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Lana Williams is serving life without parole. Here she describes a typical day.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
When Nikkia Sullivan was 13 she set out to become a Kingpin.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:45
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Diana Linz has always had a connection with dogs. Being in the dog program at the prison helped Diana cope with being locked up.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:22
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: r wilde
An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:32