Sending Messages: The Podcast

Feb 18 2025 50 ep. 25 mins 6

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True stories, poetry, interview and radio plays written, performed and produced by youth in a secure care facility in Salt Lake City, Utah. A Spy Hop Production.

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91 - Lessons

Feb 18 2025 12 mins

In this episode, the girls of Sending Messages talk about lessons that they have learned. Experiences that have been tough to deal with but ones that have undoubtedly taught them something. Stories, poems, and songs by Nickle Walnut, Bonnie, Freddy, and Sage. This episode was hosted by Freddy.

90 - Misunderstandings,Misconceptions, and Miscommunications

Jan 17 2025 33 mins

In this episode, Ghetti, Barbie, and Bonnie are joined by their staff member Jorge to discuss how communication, boundaries, race, friendships, trauma, and keeping the peace can get mixed up when you live side by side with people you don't get along with.

89 - Three Girls On The Beat

Jan 17 2025 19 mins

In this episode, Freddy, Ghetti, and Diamond answer questions about their families, the frustrations of being incarcerated, mistakes they have made, and their hopes for the future.

88 - Nightmares

Sep 25 2024 19 mins

Fear and Nightmares impact incarcerated youth differently than it does other young people. You wake up in the middle of the night to find out you have just entered a new bad dream of lock up. You relive the same mistakes and regrets over and over. In this episode, stories, poetry, and conversations about nightmares are written, performed, and produced by Velli, Bonnie, Boots, Diamo

87 - A Cold Christmas and Other Stories

Dec 19 2023 32 mins

This year the students in Sending Messages tried to make a holiday podcast, but didn't really get too far. Instead, enjoy poetry and letters about loss, lockup, and love from AktivE, Tina, Static, Scar, and C-Dot, as well as conversations featuring Virtuosity, AktivE, Static, Phoenix, C-Dot, G-Man, and Ruthless. This episode was mixed and hosted by Phoenix. Happy Holidays.

Episode 86 - The House

May 05 2023 27 mins

Join us on this house tour. Walk through the halls, peek in the rooms, and climb the stairs. This isn't just any house. This is a house made of memories. Bricks carved out of trauma, doors cracked by anger and floors worn by fear. But all of the locks are open, and the stories these walls are ready to tell are desperate to be heard. So come in. Poetry and interviews for this episod

Episode 85 - Stolen and Lost

Apr 03 2023 30 mins

What has been stolen? Who has been lost? Are there times they are the same things? This episode the Sending Messages girls discuss the things that have been taken away in their lives. Both tangible items, identities, time, and sometimes, people. Stories and interviews by Tina Posole, Star, Icarus, Skarr, and Ghetti. Thanks for listening.

Episode 84 - Perfection

Feb 21 2023 35 mins

This episode, Bhetti, Skarr and Tina Posole talk with their producer Adam about what perfection is like as a young girl in Secure Care, with everyone watching. this episode also features poetry by Star and Icarus, as well as a flashback piece by Alias. Thanks for listening.

Episode 83 - Halloween 2022

Oct 31 2022 43 mins

Happy Halloween! This episode, the youth from Decker Lake bring you stories, poetry, interviews and music all themed all about monsters, nightmares, and fear. Virtuosity, Dawn Breaker, Rambollo, K-One, and Liu Kang share their insights on both the fun of the holiday, as well as their own experiences growing up celebrating Halloween and thinking about the difference between childhoo

Episode 82 - Greatest Hits

Oct 27 2022 37 mins

This episode is a compilation for a research project about how the true stories and recollections by incarcerated youth can change attitudes about their situations to the public at large. While this episode is used for this purpose with a particular audience, we also wanted to share it with our larger podcasting audience as it represents some of the most impactful and interesting p