The prison experience is understood to be isolating and depriving of visual stimulation. Prisons are not quiet places where reflection and reparation occur. Incarcerated people develop a special sensitivity to sound. In a place where their bodily agency is restricted, listening –or refusing to– is a political act. Based on his friend’s recollection of detention sounds, the artist recreates soundscapes that have been weaponized by both the detainees and their guards, as tools of surveillance and resistance. By addressing misconceptions of detention and focusing on prisoners’ knowledge, this aural experiment is a reflection towards prison abolition and the damage and futility of punishment.