Prison Breakdown

By: Professors Eric Bronson & Beck Strah
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  • Summary

  • A podcast about prisons. Hosted by Prof. Eric Bronson and Prof. Beck Strah.
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Political Science Science Social Sciences True Crime
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Episodes
  • Purrrison Programs (Pt. 1)

    Purrrison Programs (Pt. 1)
    Jan 27 2025

    Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss top pies, death row inmates attempting to deny their commutations, prison cat programs, cat program backlash, stray cats, cat placement programs, and Christmas Mail (2010)
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    1 hr
  • Pelican Bay State Prison

    Pelican Bay State Prison
    Jan 13 2025

    Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss extrajudicial beatings to death, Pelican Bay State Prison, cell sizes and amenities, cuff ports, yard time, the California prison boom of the 70s, inmates covering themselves in feces, prison design and the Panopticon, the SHU, In the Place of Justice by Wilbert Rideau, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Civil Commitment (feat. Sam Trieber)

    Civil Commitment (feat. Sam Trieber)
    Dec 31 2024

    Today Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit are joined by Grad Student Sam Trieber to talk about Syrian prisons, opening up the institutions, early forms of civil commitment, predictive crime, expert witness disparities, using previous crimes in commission of civil commitment, psychiatric inmate release, civil commitment for sex offenders, addressing the roots of crime and mental health care, and The Fall Guy (2024).
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    1 hr and 15 mins

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