Penned
Penned takes a look at the relationships which are formed between inmates and the people who write to them through the prison pen pal system.
- Update frequency
- every 73 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 32
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2024
Episode 11: Shane, 'Being Part Of The Solution'
Christina speaks with Shane again, an inmate currently serving a life sentence at Sing Sing Prison. As Christina tries to understand the idea of inmates being cancelled out from society, Shane goes i…
Episode 10: Shane, 'We're All Doing Time'
Quarantine Edition. Christina speaks with Shane, an inmate currently serving a life sentence in New York State's Sing Sing Prison. He gives a firsthand account of the events developing in the prison …
Episode 9: Vanessa Pt. 2
In the second part of Vanessa's interview, she speaks with Christina about the details surrounding Tyler's crime for which he received a sentence of life without parole.
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Episode 8: Vanessa Pt. 1
Christina speaks with Vanessa, a woman who consistently corresponds with inmates serving life without parole sentences. In the first of a two part episode Vanessa shares details of a relationship tha…
Episode 7: Exchange For Change
Christina speaks with Kathie Klarreich, Executive Director of Exchange For Change, a nonprofit organization that teaches writing in prisons and runs letter exchanges between incarcerated students and…
Episode 6: Letters To Tony Pt. 2
Christina shares more letters from the pen pals who wrote to her brother during his 5 year prison sentence.
Episode 5: Jessica
Christina speaks with Jessica, a married mother of two young children who has developed a relationship with an inmate serving a 20 year sentence.
Episode 4: Samantha
Christina speaks with Samantha, a woman who has developed a close friendship with an inmate serving 50 years in prison.
Episode 3: Letters to Tony
Episode 2 : Frank
