Jon and Jake look at the silent footage from Marcy Correctional Facility of the mistreatment of inmate Robert Brooks, who later died in custody. Was what we see in the video normal? And what has gone wrong that professional COs, rule oriented public servants, could be turned into savages?

https://ag.ny.gov/osi/footage/robert-brooks

Another Live with a special guest with news and Jake Jokes

The bus was on fire. The fight broke out between inmates and officers as a unique opportunity for mayhem and escape presented itself. No hardened criminal or committed inmate could leave the challenge untaken. Do the officers have what it takes? Meanwhile at a different time somewhere else, Martin County Jail (Florida) was attacked by an Anti-Trump radical, leading to his own personal J-6. As insane and hilarious as the attack was, what will the fallout be for the staff? And how many more bollards are needed?

Jake Joke: Something between a C+ and a B-

Dusting off the lost episode of TRUE CRIME as a Christmas Special, we look into the sordid history of one of the worst criminal offenders in American History. Like many of the worst he got away with a lot.

In this episode Jon is joined by Lexie Ellis, who is thinking about breaking into the true crime podcast game. It's her first time, be gentle. If you like what you hear send feedback: a second episode is already in the works, but we need to hear from you.

Follow on IG @lexie_j_ellis to see details from this case.

A Livestream with Jake, Jon and Dana. WE answer questions, tell jokes and share an update on an old Hard Time case.

Jamie Osuna killed Yvette Pena in 2011, a single mother six. Beating, stabbing, strangulation. Osuna went on the news to admit guilt and say he was proud of his crimes and proud of himself. A self styled nihilist in the vein of comic book and movie villains, he went on to behead his cellmate at Corcoran State Prison and desecrate his body. A battle for his competency ensued and the legal response to Osuna continues. But is it worth it? And are we indulging his self image, his machismo, his juice through our horror and awe at his crimes? We give guys like him too much credit.

Jake Joke D+

An inmate on death row is asking for the firing squad instead of lethal injection. But why would he ask for that? Is it a strange request that buys time while the lawyers duke it out, or does he have legitconcerns about the 'cruelty' of the needle? Maybe his victims should weigh in. A emergency room doctor who had once been shot was one strange case of testimony in favor of the gun. But what is the best way to die? Jon and Jake talk it out before each of them goes through with their preferred method. Make the most out of your drive-home or terlet squat with this fun uplifting episode.

Also another confusing chapter about whether or not inmates should be allowed to have technology (they shouldn't).

Jake Joke: A. Not A Plus.

In this thrilling previously subscriber only episode, Jon and Jake discuss times they have gotten in trouble for making stupid mistakes, or being blames for the mistakes of their subordinates. But them's the breaks, that's what happenes when you have the awesome limitless power and authority of middle-management (sergeant), you have to take all the responsibility commensurate with that power (all of it).

Jon also tells the story of a correctional officer too real to be discounted and yet too buffoonish to be believed, in the first of many installments of stories about "Officer K", a slobbish oaf who is the sole reason correctional officers are seen unfortunately as something less than professional.

Finally the case at last is the story of the confusing excape from custody of Sean Christopher Williams, who started out in a van in Kentucky and by the time the van got to the courthouse in Tennessee he was no longer inside of it. That had to be a hell of a thing to report and investigate. Guessing that officer needs Indeed.

Jake comes through with a classic dad-styled zinger. B+

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 Reference (it's in there somewhere around an hour, this has been edited down from the paid version, which is why you should pay for your versions.)

Jon called it last year: more and more riots to come. and politicians and the public look the other way, criminals and judges are still doing their parts to fill up jails. The buildings are crumbling and command staff undermines the man walking a beat on the block. This makes one of the world's hardest jobs harder still, why their ranks are thinner than ever.

Friday was so political. Jon and Jake kick back and relax this Monday morning and just shoot the shit about the aryan brotherhood (no I will not capitalize the name of a gang) up to their old shenanigans again. But have they pulled a fast one on the criminal justice system to sneak out of a death sentence? Only prison's least diverse gang knows for sure.

Jake Joke: Really more of a mispronunciation?

References: Det. Odafin Tutuola. Be ready for it.