Prison Breakdown

Prison Breakdown

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Prison Breakdown episodes

  • Prison News 8/31/26

    Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss prison abuses in Ohio, Buc-ee’s litigious culture and the pushback, sexual abuse in California prisons, and private prison companies pulling in record profits.

    32 min
  • Dr. Timothy Leary and the Concord Prison Experiment

    Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss Dr. Timothy Leary, his history and beliefs as a clinical psychologist, MCI Concord partnering with Harvard, Dr. Leary’s experiments with psilopcybin, his accounts of his experiments, subject accounts, and long-term observances. Producer Brit reviews Primal Fear (1996).

    1 hr 15 min
  • Prison News 8/17/26

    Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss Murder 2 convicts in Pennsylvania getting a new lease on life, felony murder, the prison-industrial link to diarrhea lettuce, some Brit’s Picks, and Beckommendations. 

    35 min
  • The Illinois Prison Sweepstakes

    Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss a 7-Layer Dessert Dip, family podcasts, Flora, Illinois’s bid to get a prison in their town, Brown County’s bid for a prison and prison experience night, an early viral rap song, and The Last Seduction (1994)


    Chief Ed Guyott and the Long Arm of the Law Band - All We Want'sa Prison - 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZVrckq-D-c


    Barbed Wire Choir - Is We Is -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5-d2WOgpfQ

    1 hr 1 min
  • Prison News 8/3/26

    Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss the best cereals, protests over prison conditions in Wisconsin, felon disenfranchisement, an innocent man serving a record-setting prison tenure, and Israel using crocodiles as prison guards

    31 min
  • Interview with Dr. Jacqueline Helfgott

    Professor Beck Strah interviews criminology professor and author Dr. Jacqueline Helfgott about art in prison, restorative justice programs, working with incarcerated populations, psychopathy, and Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018)

    1 hr 12 min
  • Prison News 7/20/26 (feat. Spenser Hodge)

    Professor Beck Strah, Producer Brit, and Media Consultant Spenser discuss several federal prison closures, an update on the Prairieland case, plus Brit's Picks, Beckommendations, and Spenser's Gifts.

    42 min
  • Prison News 7/6/26

    Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss prison mail digitization services and new laws in Florida allowing the death penalty for child abuse. 

    31 min
  • Interview with Vik Chopra (from Concrete Mama Podcast)

    Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson talk to Vik Chopra from the Concrete Mama Podcast and Unincarcerated Productions, with topics ranging from Vik's incarceration, building a media platform, peer support in prison, prison subcultures, restorative justice, and Vik's abs.


    follow Vik's work on Instagram @unincarceratedproductions

    or listen to Concrete Mama wherever you get podcasts

    1 hr 6 min

About Prison Breakdown

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A podcast about prisons. Hosted by Profs Eric Bronson and Beck Strah.


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