'Life Jolt' Explores Women's Experiences in Prison

This photo from Monday June 21, 2004, shows inmate Mary Tobin walking a puppy down a cell block hallway at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, N.J.

The new CBC podcast, Life Jolt—which refers to a life sentence—examines women's experiences in prison in both the US and Canada. The podcast is hosted by a formerly incarcerated woman, Rosemary Green, who speaks to several women in different places in their prison journeys, looking at the inmate in a holistic way as well as looking at rates of indigenous women in Canadian prisons. She will be joined by her producer, John Chipman

This segment was guest-hosted by Matt Katz