Prison Breakdown

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

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

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss a stay of execution in Alabama, and an epidemic of suicide within solitary confinement at Mississippi state prisons. 

The boys take a trip to The Fife & Drum restaurant, a one-of-a-kind culinary program at Northeastern Correctional Center in Concord, MA. Also, Producer Brit reviews Mercy (2026).

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss lenient sentences for inmate sexual assault in New Mexico, a promising new college program in California, and toilet flush limiters in prisons. 

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017).

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss the Louisiana Prison System and Gov. Jeff Landry “tough on crime” policies, as well as a call to remove Michigan’s Prison Director due to some deaths at a women’s facility. 

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory (2000)

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss a Louisiana Sheriff accused of malfeasance, Bronson’s recent student trip to the Angola Prison rodeo, Angola’s unfortunate conversion to migrant detention, and a mother’s attempt to break her son from prison. 

Professor Beck Strah, Producer Brit, and Media Consultant Spenser Hodge discuss former Subway mascot Jared Fogel, his rise, his media coverage, his cultural impact, his crimes, and of course: his imprisonment. Producer Brit also reviews Crime 101 (2026).  Follow Spenser on IG: @numetalkvlt

Professor Beck Strah, Producer Brit, and Media Consultant Spenser Hodge weigh in on a pizza smuggling ring, two deaths at the Dayton Correctional Facility, a Texas court of appeals overturning a death row sentence, Brit’s Picks, Beccomendations, and Spenser’s Gifts. Follow Spenser on IG: @numetalkvlt

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss The Real Housewives of Rhode Island, the conditions, amenities, training/vocational programs, Ghislaine Maxwell’s incarceration, special privileges, universal prisoner amelioration, and The Last Days of American Crime (2020). 

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss an expansion of education in Michigan Prisons, an update on the theoretical reopening of Alcatraz as a prison, and a Chilean Prison Rugby Team.

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss first albums, and Club Fed, including conditions, amenities, the population, prison camps, stratified prison placement, prison consultants, religious accommodations, food, and Carlito’s Way (1993).

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss a drone smuggling operation in New York, Marcy Playground, a Gun McGuyver in Washington State, poachers, Afroman’s victory in court, a Kansan man arrested for throwing meth over a prison wall, and a correction officer with an itchy pepper spray trigger finger.

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss a fantasy bookball league, Jim Breuer and airport food, New York City prison ships, the politics of prison ships, stinky carceral tactics, celebrity decommissioned ferries, prison ship medical issues, and Song Sung Blue (2025).

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss poor prison healthcare in Arizona, chronic overcrowding in a Washington child prison school, and a January 6th rioter going back to prison.

Professors Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss prison ships, the carceral state of the United Federation of Planets, the brig, prison hulks, the history of maritime incarceration in Britain, the early history of prison boats in the US, cruise ship act 2 Cool, and Predators (2025). Brought to you by Roger Williams University School of Justice Studies

Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss an end to gender affirming care in federal prisons, and a Missouri bill to standardize minimum prison terms.

Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss the critically-acclaimed HBO Documentary The Alabama Solution (2025)

Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss a maternity program in South Dakota, poor conditions in Mississippi prisons, a bill targeting the mental health of corrections officers, the sentencing of Trump’s would-be assassin, and some Brit’s Picks and Beckommendations.

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss The Super Bowl, manipulation awareness, inmate manipulation strategies, the us vs. them mentality, the rumor mill, manipulator blackmail, gaslighting, and Night of the Comet (1984).

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss a handmade musical prison performance, Thomas Silverstein, an update on Elizabeth Holmes, and issues in programming at New York State Prison. 

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss being tall, how inmates select their victims of manipulation, secrets between COs and inmates, A Christmas Karen (2022), and stunt spectaculars. 

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss a brawl in a Georgia prison, a North Carolina man buying a prison for the forces of good, a Nevada warden getting fired for a party gone awry, and a mail carrier getting busted for mail theft.