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Prison Breakdown

Professors Eric Bronson & Beck Strah

A podcast about prisons. Hosted by Prof. Eric Bronson and Prof. Beck Strah.Brought to you by Roger Williams 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)

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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