Earlonne Woods co-founded the popular podcast from inside San Quentin State Prison in 2017 while serving a lengthy prison sentence. Newsom had begun the process of pardoning him earlier this year.

Newsom moved to commute 18 sentences and pardon 37 people. He also submitted a pardon application for Earlonne Woods, who launched the "Ear Hustle" podcast from San Quentin.

In this 2018 photo, Earlonne Woods shows recording equipment similar to what he used in San Quentin State Prison to produce his podcasts. Gov. Gavin Newsom granted a pardon to Woods on Wednesday.

SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom is requesting a full pardon for Earlonne Woods, a renowned podcaster formerly incarcerated at San Quentin who recently inked a documentary deal with ...

The day before Thanksgiving, Gov. Gavin Newsom granted pardons for 19 people, including award-winning San Quentin podcaster Earlonne Woods. "Ear Hustle," the popular and critically acclaimed ...

SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom is requesting a full pardon for Earlonne Woods, a renowned podcaster formerly incarcerated at San Quentin who recently inked a documentary deal with ...

When Ear Hustle launched in 2017, it was a bit of a revelation. It was the first podcast to be produced out of a prison — San Quentin State Prison in California, where two of the podcast’s founders, ...

Earlonne Woods is the co-creator, co-host, and co-producer of Ear Hustle (PRX & Radiotopia). In 1997, Woods was sentenced to thirty-one years to life in prison.

Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor started the podcast 'Ear Hustle' when Woods was a prisoner in San Quentin. Woods' sentence was recently commuted, but the two continue to tell stories of life in prison.