Today's Oddcast - Buried Alive (Airdate 2/28/2022)

Imagine being locked in a small soundproof room, lights on 24/7. How long could you take it? How many days or weeks or months? How about 36 years? Seems impossible that any human being could survive it, but one did. James Silverstein was America's longest-held inmate in solitary confinement. 36 years. That's 13,140 endless, lonely, suffocating days. Silverstein was violent and remorseless - and his legacy of murder and mayhem is woven into the American prison system. Silverstein's crimes played a big role in the creation of today's modern supermax prison. This episode takes a look at Terrible Tommy, the man buried alive in the highest-security prison in the federal system. And as appalling as it might be to imagine him a hero, there are people who do...

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