Profs Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Life (1999) with Producer Brit.

Profs Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss harmful chemicals in prison water, foam parties, Charles Bronson, the cost of solitary confinement, access to services in solitary, international views on solitary, racial disparities in solitary, staffing for solitary, therapy for solitary individuals, euphemisms, mental health and solitary, and Ernest Goes to Jail (1990).

Profs Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss Groundhog Day, Law Abiding Citizen (2009), cruise reviews, the state incentives behind pay to stay jails, the two-tiered system of criminal justice, reward structures in prison, jail as rehabilitation vs jail as punishment, justification for pay to stay, pay to stay jail advertising, Mike Lindell, pivoting away from pay to stay, unemployment rates and incarceration, and Milli Vanilli (2023)

Profs Bronson and Strah discuss an Australian manhunt for a man released on error, Crocodile Dundee, IHOP pancake eating contests, international felon disenfranchisement, disenfranchisement and white privilege, recidivism and re-enfranchisement, million dollar blocks, permanent disenfranchisement, and How to Be a Serial Killer (2008).

Profs Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss Danny Masterson getting repeatedly beaten in prison, prison democracy, differing classes of vote restriction, racial and sex disparities in felon disenfranchisement, Florida being disappointing, felon disenfranchisement as an election tool, taxation without representation, labeling theory, non-voter databases, In with the Devil: a Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by James Keene with Hillel Levin, and Rubber (2010).

Profs Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss circus people, an example sentencing for carceral fentanyl trafficking, conflict with incarcerated romantic partners, leaving enough space for Jesus, gender and relationship status in relation to emotional health, establishing meaningful relationships under incarceration, conjugal visits, same-sex relationships, and Caged Heat 3000 (1995).

Profs. Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss weather, the podcast not being explicit enough, a Rhode Island deputy shooting a sheriff, sally ports, Bronson taking a student group to Louisiana, Steven Seagal Lawman, Joe Arpaio, family visitation, the Angola Prison Rodeo, conjugal visits, prison phone calls, the social capital of community connections, the benefits of building familial relationships for the incarcerated, and Caged Heat 2: Stripped of Freedom (1994).

Profs. Eric Bronson and Beck Strah discuss Jackson, MS prisoner graves, gang tattoos, retribution tattoos, the symbology of prison ink, bitcoin, Canadian subsidised prison tatts, police and jury profiling of people with prison tattoos, and Caged Heat (1974)