Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss post office politics, corrections strikes in New York, hostage situations in prison, the psychology of hostage takers, the duration of physical anger, hostage negotiators, negotiation tactics, and Megalopolis (2024)
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Prison Break (2005) Episode 2
Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss the Western Society of Criminology Conference, spraying the vice president’s book with drugs, Prison Break Season 1 Episode 2, Milk Chicken, and We Need to Talk about Kevin (2011).
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Purrrison Programs (Pt. 2)
Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss inmate firefighters, cat prison programs, rodent control, cat emotions, spaying and neutering programs, screening for cat programs, and A Very Cool Christmas (2004)
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Purrrison Programs (Pt. 1)
Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss top pies, death row inmates attempting to deny their commutations, prison cat programs, cat program backlash, stray cats, cat placement programs, and Christmas Mail (2010)
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1:00:02
Pelican Bay State Prison
Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss extrajudicial beatings to death, Pelican Bay State Prison, cell sizes and amenities, cuff ports, yard time, the California prison boom of the 70s, inmates covering themselves in feces, prison design and the Panopticon, the SHU, In the Place of Justice by Wilbert Rideau, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
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