What is prisoners' radio? Who is involved in «creating» these types of programs and what
influence do they have on discourses of law and order? Internationally radio that operates for
or by prisoners exists almost exclusively within the community radio context. Little has been
documented about the genre so far. Raising the Civil Dead seeks to address this lack of
information. It examines prisoners' radio as citizens' media connecting directly to notions of
civic responsibility. It focuses on the ways in which people produce media and how these
activities transform those individuals. The research is the result of four in-depth case
studies conducted in two countries complemented by an international inventory of prisoners'
radio programs and stations.
