Today Producer Brit is taking the lead! With Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson, they discuss a final update on the NOLA prison escapees, and Oscar Pistorius, including his childhood, rise in running, murder of his girlfriend and subsequent trials, sentences, and current life. Also, Southern Comfort (1981).
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Jocktober: Aaron Hernandez
Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss updates on the P Diddy sentencing, and the first week of Jocktober! This week we’re following jock/felon Aaron Hernandez, including his background, his multiple crimes, his arrests, his imprisonment, his gang activity, his sexuality, and his eventual death, and also Materialists (2025).
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The Twin Towers Correctional Facility
Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss a Beekeeping Prison Program in Massachusetts, the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, mental heath treatment at the prison, crisis response programs, a lawsuit settlement, a former sheriff’s indictment, notable inmates in the facility, and Sudden Death (1995).
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Mean Guns (1997) feat. Spenser
Today Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit are joined by Media Expert Spenser! Together, they discuss Joe Bonamassa, karate sex offenders, and Mean Guns (1997)
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Alligator Alcatraz (Pt. 2)
Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson talk more about Alligator Alcatraz, including Steven Miller, oversight of the facility, passing the accountability hot potato, ICE and their increased budget, the facility getting closed down by a judge and the backlash, Johnny Frank Garrett’s Last Word (2016), and the final meal of Keith Zettlemoyer
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