Prison Breakdown

Professors Eric Bronson & Beck Strah
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  • SOCIAL SCIENCES
  • UPDATED BIWEEKLY

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

  1. 6D AGO

    The Alabama Solution (2025)

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

    58 min

  2. FEB 16

    Prison News 2/16/26

    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.

    36 min

  3. FEB 9

    Manipulation (Pt. 3)

    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).

    56 min

  4. FEB 2

    Prison News 2/2/26

    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.

    29 min

  5. JAN 26

    Manipulation (Pt. 2)

    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.

    51 min

  6. JAN 19

    Prison News 1/19/26

    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.

    34 min

  7. JAN 12

    Manipulation (Pt. 1)

    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)

    1h 4m

  8. JAN 5

    Prison News 1/5/26

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

    28 min
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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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  • Creator
    Professors Eric Bronson & Beck Strah
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    67
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Prison Breakdown