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- "Tossing Away the Keys"
- Summary: Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate Wilbert Rideau's report on fellow inmates who are serving life terms without the possibility of parole.
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Review of Tossing Away the Keys
Bill McKibben
Posted on January 24, 2005 at 06:04 AM
This is a great piece of radio, one of the finest half hours around. I remember it when it was first broadcast, and now would be the perfect moment for stations to replay it. It's an almost unbelievably sad and powerful story. But they'll need to have an intro (or maybe better a new ending) a couple of minutes long to explain how it was that Rideau finally managed to get out. It would also work very well with coverage of Sister Helen prejean's new book on the death penalty. (She and Rideau are old friends). Anyway, what a piece!