Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison.

Hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods created the show in 2016 while Earlonne was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison and Nigel was a volunteer teaching photography in the prison. Since Earlonne’s release in 2018, the show has expanded to include stories from prisons across the state, including the California Institution for Women, as well as stories about getting out of prison and starting over, post-incarceration.

From finding romance, to grappling with a life sentence, to trying to parent via 15-minute phone calls, Ear Hustle stories deliver what This American Life host Ira Glass calls a “very real” and “untragic” take on prison life.

Want to write to the Ear Hustle team?

• Ear Hustle
• P.O. Box 883723
• San Francisco, CA 94188-3723

TEAM CREDITS:

• Earlonne Woods: Co-host and co-producer
• Nigel Poor: Co-host and co-producer
• Amy Standen, Editor
• Bruce Wallace, Executive Producer
• Cat Schuknecht: CIW Senior Producer
• Derrell Sadiq Davis, Assistant Producer and Music Contributor
• Shabnam Sigman, Managing Producer
• Tam Nguyen, Assistant Producer
• Tony Tafoya, Inside Managing Producer