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Prison Breakdown

Professors Beck Strah & Eric Bronson

A podcast about prisons. Hosted by Profs Eric Bronson and Beck Strah.Brought to you by Roger Williams University School of Justice Studies

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73:11

Movie May-nute: Animal Factory (2000)

Prison Breakdown ·

2026/05/18

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

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32:22

Prison News 5/11/26

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2026/05/11

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.

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74:57

Jared Fogel Goes to Jail (feat. Spenser Hodge)

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2026/05/04

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

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40:00

Prison News 4/27/26 (feat. Spenser Hodge)

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2026/04/27

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

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56:38

Federal Prison Camp Bryan (and Ghislaine Maxwell)

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2026/04/20

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).

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27:11

Prison News 4/13/26

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2026/04/13

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.

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53:19

Club Fed

Prison Breakdown ·

2026/04/06

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).

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31:16

Prison News 3/30/26

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2026/03/30

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.

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53:53

Prison Ships (Pt. 2)

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2026/03/23

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).

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32:25

Prison News 3/16/2026

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2026/03/16

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.

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46:10

Prison Ships (Pt. 1)

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2026/03/09

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

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35:48

Prison News 3/2/26

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2026/03/02

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.

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57:32

The Alabama Solution (2025)

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2026/02/23

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

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36:19

Prison News 2/16/26

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2026/02/16

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.

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55:37

Manipulation (Pt. 3)

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2026/02/09

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).

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28:53

Prison News 2/2/26

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2026/02/02

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.

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50:31

Manipulation (Pt. 2)

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2026/01/26

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.

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33:50

Prison News 1/19/26

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2026/01/19

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.

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64:17

Manipulation (Pt. 1)

Prison Breakdown ·

2026/01/12

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss the ethics of manipulation, advertising, population control, inmate manipulation, downing a duck, blackmail, totalitarian communities, and Get Santa (2014)

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27:53

Prison News 1/5/26

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2026/01/05

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss smuggling tobacco into a prison, detestable co-workers, and the buried 60 Minutes CECOT report.

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