Hard Time: A Look At The Law Inside The Walls

Georgia Dept of Corrections is so bad that 37 inmates got killed there. An officer got killed. An now, a warden has been stabbed. Nobody works there, and many that do aren't all they're cracked up to be. We've covered Prisons in the Peach State a few times, but permissive society and inept leadership continue to ruin working and living conditions down south. Up north, two COs jump out...

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Government makes everything worse. In Virginia, an act of Congress is underway to try to convert a basement of a jail in order to let 4 kids sleep there overnight to cut down on thousands of hours of transports. These kids will be on the city commission before it's over. In Los Angeles County, Los Padrinos had a riot/escape over Christmas. Only 40 officers showed up to work that night, and of...

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It's After Dark. Madge crashes this episode before and after, about the unmitigated hellhole that is Riker's Island.  We've criticized NYDOC before, this new one takes the cake.  A correctional officer intervened and saved a man's life, only to wait almost a year to be hit with the news he was facing charges for his bravery.  Their problem with him was that he wasn't in two pla...

Jake and Jon tackle the really effed up situation over at Rikers this one dude is beating the shit out of everyone on the staff. So this one captain says what the fuck are we doing guys to the upper staff and they're pretty much "silence, you insolent cur" about it, and sure enough he is suspended. If you ever had shitty leadership you will relate to this episode and if you ever had...

Sgts Bates and Welder break down the in-custody death of Irvo Otieno, held in custody in Henrico County VA-- but while be transferred to a mental health facility, an incident occurred with combined correctional and hospital staff that ended in his death. With power-house attorney Ben Crump involved, you can bet that cops will be framed for blame. (May 2, 2023)

A long long time ago, Episode 1 was made. Get to know Jon, a former correctional officer and sergeant at the state's big house, and Jake, a current sergeant at a jail in the southwest. They tell you how they came and stay and went (in Jon's case), and you get to hear Jon's "Most Prison Story Ever."

A daring escape. A dangerous man. And how 19 minutes and a wanted poster made all the difference in returning him to prison or a life of fugitive Mexican style freedom. Porfirio Duarte-Herrera escaped Southern Desert Correctional Center-- he was in there for bombing the Luxor Hotel and killin' a guy. He busted out with Suave lotion and a transducer, which you can just find lying around inside...

Idaho tried and failed to execute inmate Thomas Creech last month, who has been on death row since 1981. Creech admitted to killing a bunch of people in the 1970s, but convicted of two for sure. Supreme Court decision in 1976 put a temporary stop on executions and so Creech got a new chance at life, which he threw away by killing another inmate inside the prison. Now, we can't get an IV going...

Oklahoma County Jail became every officer's nightmare. Officer Daniel Misquez was doing his job when an inmate, held on rape charges, took his keys radio and cell phone and held a knife to his neck. They stabbed him, kicked, and humiliated our comrade-in-arms for over an hour. The incident was livestreamed on Facebook, giving you the pubic a real look at the animal inmates the media and politi...

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘸𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, aside from the guards being corrupt stupid and brutal, is one of the most compelling prison movies ever made. Can you swim through a river of shit and come out clean? Brooks got out but couldn't stand it. Jon tells the story of a guy who didn't want to go to general population, so he threatened Jon's life. But Jon didn't fall for it! Jake also sees repeat...

The job is polticial whether you like it or not. Robert Gonzalez, NYC's Correction Department training chief resigned because he refused to rescind transfer orders for COs who were breaking policy and not doing their jobs. His boss Lynelle Maginley-Liddie got a call from city hall. Gonzalez refused to bow to political pressure leveraged upon him by his subordinates. But how does that even happ...

Last Friday was rough. CDCR admin was really taken to task for their California model. CDCR does have some really praiseworthy OFFICERS though, and in this episode Jon and Jake highlight the heroic actions of Officer Rogelio Tienda, who works at Corcoran, who saved the life of another officers and apprehended the suspect who left him for dead-- all this out in the community. Another story to lift...

After episode 50, Jon's gonna sit out the next couple of plays. Joining Jake is Anthony Gangi, the host of 𝘛𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘬, a YouTube Channel dedicated to the brave men and women who work in the shadows of justice-- corrections. Anthony worked in five prisons with all kinds of people and faced a lot of adversity. But he doesn't let bad admins or the daily negativity to stop him from enjoying a j...

It started out so well: Jon and Jake's spirits are high while they talk favorite bourbons and scotch, but then are soon sobered to hear the story of a female correctional in Los Angeles who was taken hostage on her post and raped for hours by a vicious inmate. The result of expanded freedoms and fewer consequences in "The California Model," being adopted across the country. Officers...

Tanya Suarez took meth, was arrested, and in a drug fueled psychosis, gouged out her own eyes. Now Suarez is getting a $4.35 Million payday because a San Diego correctional officer "failed" to save her from her own vicious insanity-- she blames the negligence and poor training of officers for her sightless life and has sued the people of San Diego. Kaylee Muthart did the same thing, but...

The Keystone state (again). A 17-year-old murder suspect with a knuckle ouchie escaped from correctional staffers while at a Philadelphia hospital. The mission for his capture began. According to toughass Texas-drawl US Marshal Matt Creams, he was seen by a Target employee whose determination exceeds all reason, and the "real" cops narrowed him down to a bus in his old neighborhod. But h...

They did it because they could. In this episode Jon talks about the attack on the two NYPD officer' in Times Square and how conservative outrage about the war on police irked him, since correctional officers have always been in a position to be assaulted by suspects who face no real consequences; Trying to save the show from becoming too depressing, they cover some correctional officers recent...

Sounds like Jake's idea of a party game. To Jon, it's a not-so-clever portmanteau. Hide your sons, hide their phones, and hide what you get when you put those two things together. Predators are on the loose-- but thanks to cell phones, incarcerated criminals can prey on your kids. But it's not just kids. the US Attorney's Office is investigating a massive sextortion scam operated f...

Jake and Jon break down the case of Jordon Earl Linde, 34, who escaped from a Park County Sheriff's Office detention officer. Linde stole his gun, threatened a nurse, stole the detention officers' vehicle, and was in flight pursued by a patrol unit. Linde was charged with robbery, assault escape and more and received a sentence of 59 years behind iron bars. You must wonder then, why today...

Last year, a fire at the mismanaged facility left several officers and inmates injured. Now on the verge of federal takeover, the city's most ignominious jail is trying to fix its problems. By blaming officers, making uninformed policy changes and fundamentally misunderstanding how a shift inside a jail happens. Riker's Island-- where you can get disciplined for writing a concerned e-mail...

It's the murder case of prison reformer Michael Francke. Shortly before he died, Francke began to collect information about corruption in the Oregon prison system. In 1989 he was found stabbed to death just outside his office. Did someone want Michael Francke silenced-- permanently? Join us. Perhaps YOU can help solve a mystery. Fugitive/Shawshank References: Jake Joke: C

Jake's hard work and dedication have paid off again as he and Jon tackle a macabre case. Methman Jonathan David Hankins died in a hotel room, and when police failed to identify him, he wound up buried at the penal farm. So when his mother reported him missing, no one put the pieces together. But hey, stuff happens. It's a one-off. Except Hankins' isn't the first. 37-year-old Dexter...

The body of inmate Charles Edward Singleton was returned to his family from the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC), missing all organs-- including his precious brain. Sure, you know, it happens. A one-off. But Singleton was not the first-- inmate Brandon Dotson came out of ADOC inconveniently dead, and he was missing his heart (which is sacred). Both Dotson and Singleton were already in adva...