Hard Time: A Look At The Law Inside The Walls
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Episodes
189. The French Laundry Connection
The French prison system is le' fucked. They have dangerous prisoners going out with the wash, the "fly" getting away on transport and inmates throats getting cut. To solve their many issues, they built Lyon-Corbas-a new shiny facility to h…
188. It wasn't me it was my doppelganger
It's summer 1999 and event's that may have inspired Shaggy's "it wasn't me" have been set in motion. A man is arrested for a crime he says he did not commit; he has an alibi but is convicted of a purse snatching. He spends 17 years in jail …
187: Should We Execute Tyler Robinson?
The State is pursuing the death penalty for Charlie Kirk's murderer. Is it the right thing to do? The answer may seem obvious but the truth so rarely is. This episode is an absolute sermon on what it means to approach the death penalty lega…
183. Brian Kohberger Complaining In Prison
The killer of four students in Moscow Idaho took a plea to avoid the death penalty. Now he is finding out what the life penalty means: spending time inside J-Block, where the worst offenders in Idaho are held. What can he expect out of his …
182. Visiting Diet Satan Wade Wilson
He was an asshole who killed two women for the sake of killing. His own father turned him in, knowing the death penalty was on the table. Now these trashy ugg boot oatmilk true crime women-- the 'wade wilson wives' are crying out. Some for…
181. Alligator Alcatraz: The Prison Liberals Don't Want You You To Love
Trump is doing a thing, so how could it be good? The BBC teams up with Floridian Native Americans and The Swamp Defense League to say that putting some tents on a tarmac is the same as building an Auschwitz that also dumps pink slime into a…
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180: Georgia (The Bad Russian One) Prisons
Bleeding heart human rights groups uncover the brutality of the prisons in the failed Soviet cast-off state. But how bad is it really? BBC, the same new organization that decries conditions in the US describes them as having unbelievably lo…
179. Donna Adelson Requests Bond: Cuz Jail is Hard
She hired the Latin Kings to kill her ex-son in law. She was arrested at the airport about to fly to Vietnam-- where there is no extradition. That's the main thing you need to know about her. She comes from privilege, wealth and entitlement…
178. Before Alligator Alcatraz, There Was Alcatraz (Regular)
A new detention center in the heart of the everglades evokes the imagery of the most famous prison in US History. Erstwhile, the law and order president talks about re-opening the island prison in San Francisco bay made famous by movies and…
177. Adam Sheaf Crucifies Innocent Man, Seeks Media Glory
He was on a mission from God, he says. Well so were those 9/11 guys. Sheaf felt like crucifying 76-year-old Pastor Bill, who was a real threat to the manifestation of the Kingdom of God on the planet earth. In reality he's just an asshole-…
175. Hanging It Up Down Under
Dubbo is a place in Australia, that kookie kontinent down south. It's been 120 long years since they last let out the rope for a dastardly dude down there. To mark that milestone, we will recount some of the stories of the last wild weirdos…
174. Devil In The Ozarks; Cool Guy In Washington
Today we review a couple massive changes of fortune-- a former federal inmate who racked up felonies like they were going out of style was pardoned by Trump years ago. Now he's the top dog at the US Bureau of Prisons. Meanwhile, a small tow…
173. Will Trump Stop The Plot To Kill R. Kelly?
This asshole thinks he's important enough not only for the prison to kill, but to conspire with the Aryan Brotherhood to carry out the hit. He's been watching too much Mayor of Kingstown. Now his lawyers appeal to the top dog-- Donny J. Wal…
172. Slang: Prison's 'Secret' Language
Yo, in dis episode we go rap 'bout how folks in the joint talk real differnt, all tied to that prison vibe know what I'm sayin', and how that slang's evolved over time, shaping they whole culture. Jon, this educated white dude, gon hustle t…
171. Cheering Up Jon
The Louisiana Ten was just another case of corrupt officials setting up COs to look bad, and the professional takes another beating. In this episode, Jake attempts to cheer Jon up. Attempts being the operative word. Here are some low profi…
170: Well, Shit: Louisiana 10 Escape
Ten inmates escaped f rom the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office law enforcement center. They ripped out the toilet with some help from a maintenance guy afraid of taking a shank, and ran across the interstate to freedom. 5 have since been rec…
169. Mega Jail: Is It America's Answer?
Nayib Bukele scares the left. He cleaned up the murder capital of the world-- El Salvador-- and he did it with a tough on crime approach that would that would shock our 8th Amendment. He's a Trump acolyte to boot. Does his record of succes…
168. Lobotomies for Criminals: Worse Than Death?
Today we look at Rickey Ray Rector, who killed people. Then, refusing to go to jail, he stove his own brain in with a .38. He survived of course. His lawyer said he was like a 4 year old. Bill Clinton, trying to look tough on crime in 1992,…
167. Death By Restraint Chair
In Montgomery County, Christian Black stole a car, crashed it, went to jail, banged his head against the wall, fought the officers, despite tasing a pepper spray, and managed to put himself in the restraint chair. Well he ended up dying, an…
166. No Beautiful Way To Kill
Dying is ugly. Killing someone is even uglier. Nitrogen asphyxiation is being sold to us as the new, easy and painless way to put people to death. But are we finding that it isn't easy for the condemned, or not easy for us? Out of the woodw…
164. No Moral Code: The Gentlemen Stranglers
Hijinks in Britain, Jake and Jon discuss.First thing you must realize is that the cocoa powder is not water soluable, it's fat soluable. Use whole milk if available or half and half, as a decadent philistine would. If the powder just clumps…
162. Cats: There's Something Unseemly
Blame Sillimander for this episode about the Pendleton Maximum Security Prison which has partnered with the Animal Protection League to start a new cat-based FORWARD program which imports cats into the prison behind the walls. Proponents po…
160: The Kid With The Penis Tattoo
A documentary made in 2017 paints a picture of a facility in Gainsville Texas as made of caring people who are making a difference in the lives of at risk kids. As it turns out the school has critics at all levels-- the State Senate, non-pr…
158. The Little Longest Yard: A Great Idea
In Texas' Gainesville State School, a juvenile detention facility and not-traditional school has a great idea: high school athletics. Half school, half prison, a small group of people dedicated to reforming kids-- a superintendent, principa…
156. Terror To Evildoers: Polk County CO a Hero
In Polk County Florida, an off-duty Correctional Officer saw a suspicious male near children waiting for the bus. The stranger grabbed an 11-year-old girl, kidnapping her. Cops run towards danger when others merely dial 911: he ran after hi…
154. Operation Night Drop
Jon returns for a solo episode-- that's right, it's full divorce and it's split custody and this is your weekend with dad. In this episode Jon talks about the 23 indicted in OPERATION NIGHT DROP, a federal investigation into drones flying i…
152. How Pakistan Puts 'Em Down
Jake and Jon take down an informative article about Pakistan that India-toucher in the Indus Valley region of the far east-middle east, or western far east, or whatever, and talk about how the Islamic Republic puts down their bad dogs. But …
151. San Diego's Secret Sex Offenders
It calls itself "America's Finest City." Hidden away in San Diego is the brig at Naval Base Miramar and it has a dark secret: they ship in all the sex offenders from all over the military to serve time there, then they cut them loose into t…
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149. The Real Shawshank Escape
Richard Matt and David Sweat were discovered missing during a morning bed check at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. The two had tunneled out, and exited through a steam pipe, and disappeared like fa…
147. Ok, So Hear Me Out: Slavery
Tony The Tiger said it best. Now as it turns out every frosted flake carries with it all the sins perpetrated by this country since it was founded. The Associated Press did a two year exposé on the reality of prison labor and how it figures…
145. French Correction II: Fruit Control
Remember that French guy that couldn't stop breaking out of France's prisons? You loved it. Another experienced French guy gets away in a helicopter. But this time, he's gut art supplies, full creative liberties and some fruit. This one tur…
143. Secret Civil War: ¡Ecuador!
So many dead. So many taken hostage. Seven prisons in the equatorial country have turned into fortified bases for organized crime, which is battling the legitimate government for control of the country. The shit started at Guayaquil when on…
141. A Fucking Reminder: OFFICERS Get Killed
Curtis Allgier failed to escape. Tatted up head to toe this Aryan Bro was mister to both a wife and a mistress when he had a medical appointment. An MRI which would require all metal restraints to be removed. Just one correctional officer, …
139. That Idiot Jake Is Wrong Again: A Right Royal Mess
A long long time ago on a continent far away, the Metropolitan Remand Centre not from a specific place in Australia, a riot involving a thousand inmates exploded. The cause for the kerfuffle? Sweet, sweet cigarettes. If there is anything co…
137. Recipe for Success... or Disaster?
In New Mexico, a new rehabilitation program is trying to teach the culinary arts as a marketable skill for inmates once they finally break out of jail. The inmates have access to knives in the kitchen to learn to butcher meat, and that seem…
135. Robert Brooks Breakdown
Jon and Jake look at the silent footage from Marcy Correctional Facility of the mistreatment of inmate Robert Brooks, who later died in custody. Was what we see in the video normal? And what has gone wrong that professional COs, rule orient…
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