Professors Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss a fantasy bookball league, Jim Breuer and airport food, New York City prison ships, the politics of prison ships, stinky carceral tactics, celebrity decommissioned ferries, prison ship medical issues, and Song Sung Blue (2025).

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss poor prison healthcare in Arizona, chronic overcrowding in a Washington child prison school, and a January 6th rioter going back to prison.

Professors Beck Strah and Producer Brit discuss prison ships, the carceral state of the United Federation of Planets, the brig, prison hulks, the history of maritime incarceration in Britain, the early history of prison boats in the US, cruise ship act 2 Cool, and Predators (2025).

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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.

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

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.

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).

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.