Prison Breakdown
by Professors Beck Strah & Eric Bronson
Latest episode
Doctober: Titicut Follies (1967)
Doctober: Titicut Follies (1967)
About this podcast
A podcast about prisons. Hosted by Profs Eric Bronson and Beck Strah.
Brought to you by Roger Williams University School of Justice Studies
Episodes
The newest 20 of 103 episodes
- Doctober: Titicut Follies (1967) · 1 h 6 minProfessor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss the documentary Titicut Follies (1967)
- Prison News 10/26/26 · 38 minProfessor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss a new prison-based reality show, Diddy’s prison transfer, and some Beckommendations and Brit’s Picks!
- Doctober: Untouchable (2016) · 55 minProfessors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss the documentary Untouchable (2016)
- Prison News 10/12/26 · 39 minProfessor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss Bi-weekly, a record payout for wrongful death in New York, the ongoing Christa Pike situation, Beckommendations and Brit’s Picks!
- Timothy Leary goes to Prison · 56 minProfessors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss Timothy Leary, from his days as a Harvard Psychologist to a drug reformation advocate to a prisoner, also, Producer Brit discusses…
- Prison News 9/28/26 · 35 minProfessors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss the upcoming parole hearing of the Manendez brothers and Republican candidates using prison labor in Oklahoma to politically…
- Prison Pen Pals (feat. Madi Stevens) · 1 h 8 minProfessors Beck Strah, Eric Bronson, and their former student Madi Stevens discuss 9/11, prison pen pals, prison hobbycrafts, predatory prison e-mail services, untoward pen pal…
- Prison News 9/14/26 · 36 minProfessors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss the death of an inmate in the hands of the Clackamas County Jail, and unbearable heat conditions in Alabama Prisons, and Joe Arpio
- Drugs Studies and MKUltra in Prisons · 59 minProfessors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss the history of psychedelic studies behind bars, Whitey Bulger, the CIA’s use of psychedelics on prisoners for their MKUltra…
- Prison News 8/31/26 · 31 minProfessors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss prison abuses in Ohio, Buc-ee’s litigious culture and the pushback, sexual abuse in California prisons, and private prison…
- Dr. Timothy Leary and the Concord Prison Experiment · 1 h 14 minProfessors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss Dr. Timothy Leary, his history and beliefs as a clinical psychologist, MCI Concord partnering with Harvard, Dr. Leary’s experiments…
- Prison News 8/17/26 · 35 minProfessor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss Murder 2 convicts in Pennsylvania getting a new lease on life, felony murder, the prison-industrial link to diarrhea lettuce, some…
- The Illinois Prison Sweepstakes · 1 h 0 minProfessor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss a 7-Layer Dessert Dip, family podcasts, Flora, Illinois’s bid to get a prison in their town, Brown County’s bid for a prison and…
- Prison News 8/3/26 · 30 minProfessor Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss the best cereals, protests over prison conditions in Wisconsin, felon disenfranchisement, an innocent man serving a record-setting…
- Interview with Dr. Jacqueline Helfgott · 1 h 11 minProfessor Beck Strah interviews criminology professor and author Dr. Jacqueline Helfgott about art in prison, restorative justice programs, working with incarcerated populations…
- Prison News 7/20/26 (feat. Spenser Hodge) · 42 minProfessor Beck Strah, Producer Brit, and Media Consultant Spenser discuss several federal prison closures, an update on the Prairieland case, plus Brit's Picks, Beckommendations…
- Wesley Snipes goes to Prison (feat. Spenser Hodge) · 1 h 3 minProfessor Beck Strah, Producer Brit, and Media Consultant Spenser discuss Wesley Snipes' crimes, idiosyncrasies, trial, and imprisonment.
- Prison News 7/6/26 · 31 minProfessors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss prison mail digitization services and new laws in Florida allowing the death penalty for child abuse.
- Interview with Vik Chopra (from Concrete Mama Podcast) · 1 h 5 minProfessors 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…
- Prison News 6/22/26 · 32 minProfessors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss a stay of execution in Alabama, and an epidemic of suicide within solitary confinement at Mississippi state prisons.
