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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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66:36

The Christmas Star (1986)

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/12/29

Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss the made-for-TV movie "The Christmas Star", and, more importantly, who controls the pipes.

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39:11

Prison News 12/22/25

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/12/22

Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss this week’s news, including Sam Bankman-Fried acting as a jailhouse lawyer, a loosening of regulations for UK corrections officer retention, and an update on CECOT. Also, Beck’s Reccs and Brit’s Picks!

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29:59

Prison News 12/15/25

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/12/15

Today Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss short time, good time, a father and daughter prison dance, God behind bars, and another Louisiana prison escape.

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81:28

The Death Penalty (Pt. 3)

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/12/01

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss orgies at P Diddy’s prison, methods of execution including stoning, beheading, burning, hanging, the electric “old sparky” chair, the gas chamber, lethal injection, firing squad, the 8th amendment, and Wild Things Foursome (2010).

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74:38

Ventriloquism in Prison

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/11/17

Today Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit are joined by Dr. Andrew Baranauskas to discuss erroneous prison releases in the UK, ventriloquism in prison including the history of ventriloquism in prisons, Winston Pearson Jr., modern puppet shows, death row ventriloquism shows, Willie Brown, Walter “The Puppetmaster” Taylor, ventriloquism in WWII, a jail owned by a dummy, and Extreme Prejudice (1987)

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93:26

Jocktober: "Iron [Bars]" Mike Tyson

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/11/03

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson talk about an update on Burl Cain and the Mississippi DOC, and Mike Tyson, including his early years, his rise in the world of boxing, his crimes, convictions, and prison time. We also discuss Prisoner’s Daughter (2022).

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58:56

Jocktober: Oscar Pistorius

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/10/20

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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77:04

Jocktober: Aaron Hernandez

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/10/06

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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73:53

The Twin Towers Correctional Facility

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/09/22

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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64:13

Mean Guns (1997) feat. Spenser

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/09/08

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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61:56

Alligator Alcatraz (Pt. 2)

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/08/25

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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76:56

Alligator Alcatraz

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/08/11

Today Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss a CO murder, an update to the NOLA prison escape, Alligator Alcatraz and its origins, funding, construction, maintenance, population, mission, and open corruption, and Unbelievable! (2020)

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65:52

Prison Break (2005) Episode 3

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/07/28

Today Professor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss a man escaping prison via luggage, Prison Break S01E03 “Cell Test”, and Not Another Not Another Movie (2011)

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65:10

The Death Penalty (Pt. 2)

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/07/14

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss firework stands, the one remaining NOLA escapee, the P Diddy convictions, the final public executions, the supreme court and the death penalty, and other major court cases related to the death penalty, and Jaws 3D (1983)

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73:09

The Death Penalty (Pt. 1)

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/06/30

Today Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss an update on the NOLA prison escape, R Kelly’s medication overdose, and the death penalty, including the first death penalty, Europe and America’s historical execution practices, the spectacle of public execution, whitewashing the death penalty, jury nullification, hiding punishment for public image, the electric chair, and Woman of the Hour (2023)

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71:38

Siege at "The Walls"

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/06/16

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss updates on the NOLA jail break, chemical castrations in the UK, an 11-day siege at The Walls in Huntsville Texas, the major players, the conclusion, and Do the Right Thing (1989)

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81:04

Dog the Bounty Hunter and Pimp C go to Prison

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/06/02

Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss the recent New Orleans prison break, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Dog’s murder charge, Dog’s prison sentence, Dog’s racism allegations, Pimp C’s alleged crime, his prison sentence, Pimp C’s prison album, and The Traveling Executioner (1970)

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80:49

Movie Maynute - No Escape (1994) and Dinosaur Prison...

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/05/19

Professors Beck Strah & Eric Bronson discuss optimal muffin russian nesting doll configurations, correctional hiring freezes, reopening Alcatraz, and to close out Movie Maynute: No Escape (1994) and Dinosaur Prison (2023)

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78:20

Movie Maynute: Stir Crazy (1980) and Escape From New...

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/05/05

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss safety measures on upper galleries of prisons, Stir Crazy (1980), and Escape From New York (1981)

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62:21

Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville (The Walls)

Prison Breakdown ·

2025/04/22

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss Puddy & Peterman, an update on the New York officer strike, a Georgia bill on domestic abuse survivors in prison, “The Walls” Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, and Jesus Shows you the Way to the Highway (2019)

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