Greg Eskridge

In this episode, we'll hear from Uncuffed producers about the complicated feelings that come with the visit.

Here's Uncuffed host Greg Eskridge, who starts us off with an explainer on California prisons.

There are a few different kind of visits you can get in California prisons.

There's a regular visit where you're in a big open area with all the other visitors sitting around eating, talking for hours.

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The Uncuffed team includes host Greg Eskridge, Angela Johnston, Nina Gensler-Debs, Kelly McEvers, Sonia Paul, Kathy Novak, Shai-Rae Cannon, Eric Maserati-E. Abercrombie, and Eli Wurtzchafter.

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Aging also adds to the long list of things incarcerated folks don't find easy on the body or the mind when behind bars, but incarceration can force you to find the beauty in other ways.

On this newest episode of Uncuffed, alum Daphne Taylor joins host Greg Eskridge for a conversation about beauty on the inside and finding your style once again when you get out.

[upbeat music]

What's up, everybody? I'm Greg Eskridge.

And I'm Daphne Taylor.

And this is Uncuffed.

Those were Uncuffed producers Gina Caruso, Linda Riccio, Paige Linville, and Mercy Becerra at the California Institution for Women.

Their conversation was part of the sixth episode of Uncuffed's newest season.

[gentle music] One of the unfortunate stereotypes about men's prisons is that they're full of bad dads and absent fathers.

But if you spent any time with the people that Uncuffed host Greg Eskridge did, it's clear that's not true.

Today, Greg brings us uplifting stories about fathers and foster parents, and a special conversation about how fatherhood defines so many prison experiences, from being parented before prison, to being a parent when you get out.

Here's part of that episode.

I did have a couple father figures in my life, uncles that I looked up to who raised me, but I didn't have a dad.

Maybe you can relate.

[upbeat music] What's up, everybody? I'm Greg Eskridge, and this is Uncuffed, the podcast that empowers people in prison to tell their own stories.

In prison, we talk a lot about dads, whether they weren't around or whether they've always been our biggest supporters.