Prison Breakdown

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss a prison break in Tennessee and a personal letter about stagnant prison labor wages in Rhode Island

Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss the documentary Titicut Follies (1967)

Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss a new prison-based reality show, Diddy’s prison transfer, and some Beckommendations and Brit’s Picks!

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss the documentary Untouchable (2016)

Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss Bi-weekly, a record payout for wrongful death in New York, the ongoing Christa Pike situation, Beckommendations and Brit’s Picks!

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss Timothy Leary, from his days as a Harvard Psychologist to a drug reformation advocate to a prisoner, also, Producer Brit discusses The Snowman (2017)

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss the upcoming parole hearing of the Manendez brothers and Republican candidates using prison labor in Oklahoma to politically campaign.

Professors Beck Strah, Eric Bronson, and their former student Madi Stevens discuss 9/11, prison pen pals, prison hobbycrafts, predatory prison e-mail services, untoward pen pal behavior, and Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997)

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss the death of an inmate in the hands of the Clackamas County Jail, and unbearable heat conditions in Alabama Prisons, and Joe Arpio

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss the history of psychedelic studies behind bars, Whitey Bulger, the CIA’s use of psychedelics on prisoners for their MKUltra studies, and The Client (1994)