Pieces from Prison

This episode is about a man who is serving a life sentence for capital murder. He talks about how peer pressure and other circumstances led him to commit crime. He also contemplates where he would be had he not been incarcerated for the past 24 years. We also receive a response from the man in the episode who was given meth at the age of 13. 

Sources:

https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/764-prison-labor

This letter is about a man who received a life sentence at the age of 18 for murder. He talks about how his parents were incarcerated all throughout his childhood and how this led him to be introduced to gang life at a young age. 

Sources:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/juvenile-criminal-justice-children-gangs.html

TW: This episode contains details about child abuse.

This episode tells the story of a man who is incarcerated for aggravated robbery. He also tells the story of how he and his siblings were treated throughout his childhood, and how he was forced to grow up at a very young age. At the end of the episode, we also read a response from the man in "A Downward Spiral."

Sources: https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-racial-disparities/

https://www.thepavlovictoday.com/analysis-racial-segregation-in-the-us-prisons/

TW: sexual exploitation of underage children, suicide 

This episode is unlike one we have done before. In this episode, we hear from a person charged with child pornography. This may be triggering and difficult to hear but we feel that it is important to explore many different circumstances that have led to incarceration. 

This episode is about a man who was introduced to drugs at an unbelievably young age. He was forced to take care of himself growing up, which could have played a role in the choices he made when he got to adulthood.

This episode features a man who is incarcerated for murder and was sentenced to 90 years in prison. But, there’s a twist: he believes he is wrongly incarcerated. We will read his side of the story and show some facts of the case while still protecting his identity. The rest you can decide on your own; do you believe this man was wrongly convicted?

This episode features a man who is incarcerated for murder. He told us great details about his life, starting from when he was just a child. He received an unfortunate diagnoses when he was young, which may have led to the decisions he made later in life.

Source:

https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/gokids/gokids_articles_children_impacted.html