Formerly Incarcerated People's Performance Project

Christina Aanestad & FIPPP
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First hand accounts of mass incarceration presented on stage – how we got there, what goes on inside, and what happens after, illuminating the realities of surviving the world's largest incarcerator: the United States. FIPPP, the Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project, works with people who’ve survived jails and prison to share their experiences on stage, through the power of personal narrative. More information about our work is on our website. It also includes an events page for listings of other live performances in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mark Kenward is the Executive Producer. Mark McGoldrick is the Producer. Jim Granato is the videographer, archivist and sound engineer. Christina Aanestad is host and producer. Our theme music is “New World” by Fielder Beats with a creative commons license. A special thanks to Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where FIPPP is proud to work as their first-ever company-in-residence, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the Community Arts Fund, and the UCSF – UC Law Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy, for supporting our work and helping to make this podcast possible.

Episodes

  1. Formerly Incarcerated People's Performance Project -- Health Care Inequities in Prison

    Feb 17

    Formerly Incarcerated People's Performance Project -- Health Care Inequities in Prison

    In this episode we hear about health care inequities in the prison system with three first hand accounts by Tylon T Boogie Sizemore, Tony Cyprian, and Pamela Keane. A 2013 analysis found each year of incarceration shortens a person’s life span by two years. The poor quality of healthcare staffing and facilities, lack of oversight and accountability, high cost of copays charged to prisoners, and the general dehumanization that occurs in a carceral system based on punishment are among the factors that contribute to the terrible medical outcomes in America’s prison population. Our first story is from Tylon, who works as an intensive case manager, helping people in and out of custody reentering society. And, she does stand up. While serving a prison sentence, Tylon experienced inadequate health care, suffering multiple emergency surgeries,and almost dying, and lost what for many women is the core experience of womanhood. Tylon served 2 years in prison for violating her probation by unknowingly failing to pay restitution. The healthcare failures she experienced in prison have led to lifelong disabilities. Tony has been out since 2011, working, married, and lighting up stages around the Bay. While in prison he watched a close friend, Jackie, die, who’s health problems weren’t taken seriously enough. Tony organized a prison strike to demand better health care treatment. This is his story. Tony was 18 when he was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for murder. He served 26 years before being released in 2011. Pamela holds a drug and alcohol abuse counselor certification, and is finishing up a college degree. She’s now living on her own, after spending the first six years post release in a sober-living house. Before her release, Pamela watched her friend wither away and die from breast cancer because the Illinois state prison health care system took so long to respond to her complaints and secure a diagnosis and care. She shares the dehumanizing conditions her friend was subject to in the last months of her life, under medical care in prison. Pamela served 5 years of a 9 year sentence in an Illinois state prison, for fraudulent activities. She was paroled in 2017.

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First hand accounts of mass incarceration presented on stage – how we got there, what goes on inside, and what happens after, illuminating the realities of surviving the world's largest incarcerator: the United States. FIPPP, the Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project, works with people who’ve survived jails and prison to share their experiences on stage, through the power of personal narrative. More information about our work is on our website. It also includes an events page for listings of other live performances in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mark Kenward is the Executive Producer. Mark McGoldrick is the Producer. Jim Granato is the videographer, archivist and sound engineer. Christina Aanestad is host and producer. Our theme music is “New World” by Fielder Beats with a creative commons license. A special thanks to Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where FIPPP is proud to work as their first-ever company-in-residence, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the Community Arts Fund, and the UCSF – UC Law Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy, for supporting our work and helping to make this podcast possible.

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