Marc Lombardo’s life as a hard-working citizen crumbled when he discovered that his twin brother, David, defrauded him for a quarter of a million dollars. And after several bad decisions he found himself facing hard prison time...unless he survived Shock Incarceration.
The stories of those who have been incarcerated and their families. Our goal throughout this podcast is to elevate and humanize those directly or indirectly affected by the criminal justice system. It is our goal to reform.
Mental Health Association Oklahoma created The Mental Health Download podcast to share stories each week about mental illness, homelessness, incarceration and suicide, and how each can impact our lives in a profound way. Mental health affects everyone, yet the social stigma attached to mental health issues keeps so many of our family members, friends, colleagues and neighbors silent. Why are we so afraid to talk about these issues? Each week, our host Adi McCasland invites guests to share ho ...
Go behind the numbers of mass incarceration in America, in this 4-part series hosted by CNN's Van Jones. Hear from a range of voices, as Van and his guests explore what's behind the staggering number of individuals locked in the criminal justice system, and discuss solutions to what has become a national epidemic. And for more on the criminal justice system, check out "The Redemption Project with Van Jones," on CNN and CNN.com/go, or visit www.cnn.com/redemption.
Having spent over 12 years of his adult life incarcerated, E.i. the King recounts the crazy, funny, good, and bad memories of prison life. From the first day in prison, to the day of release, E.i. also unpacks the challenges of transitioning back into society, and how his perspective on things might be a little bit different than most."This is...The Incarceration."
MISSION: To create a national organ that weaves together the most politically-advanced organizers in the movement against mass incarceration, through which we can explore and unite our strategies, tactics, and histories.
Marc Lombardo’s life as a hard-working citizen crumbled when he discovered that his twin brother, David, defrauded him for a quarter of a million dollars. And after several bad decisions he found himself facing hard prison time...unless he survived Shock Incarceration. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional criminal activity? What impact might cybercrime have on public security? In this updated edition of his authoritative and field-defining text, cybercrime expert David Wall carefully examines these and other i…
Oklahoma has the sixth-highest eviction rate in the nation. The impact of eviction does not end when the doors are locked. High eviction rates are linked to high rates of school absenteeism, job loss, family separation, homelessness, and incarceration. Yet, very little progress has been made by Oklahoma lawmakers in addressing eviction as a root ca…
The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930 (UNC Press, 2024) reveals that Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and pr…
In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by well-qualified medical professionals. It is regulated and carefully conducted. And it provides a “humane” death. In reality, however, not one of those things is true. Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal In…
A transparent first-hand account of a Black officer maneuvering through three terrifying yet rewarding decades of policing, all while seeking reform in law enforcement When 16-year-old Keith Merith finds himself pulled over, berated, and degraded by a white police officer, he’s outraged. He’s done nothing wrong. But the officer has the power, and h…
Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York's Blackwell's Island, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals, quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, "a lounging, listless madhouse." Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archiva…
American Gangster (2007) is Ridley Scott’s homage to The French Connection: it’s got the right cars, clothes, and colors and is based on another true story of an obsessed cop trying to take down a drug kingpin. The feature (or the bug, depending on how you look at it) is Denzel Washington in the title role. Is an actor so charismatic that everyone …
n this eye-opening episode of the Black Light Mass Incarceration Show, we sit down with Courtney Teasley, Esq., a nationally respected justice strategist, legal disruptor, and CEO of emeffen., to uncover the hard truths about the criminal justice system and why your lawyer might not truly believe in your innocence. Courtney unpacks how she’s using …
In this 100th episode (!!!) of Peoples & Things, host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Benjamin H. Snyder, Associate Professor of Sociology at Williams College, about his recent book, Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment (University of California Press, 2024). Spy Plane examines how the city of Baltimore, Maryland, came to adopt a corporate…
Intelligence is all around us. We read about it in the news, wonder who is spying on us through our phones or computers, and want to know what is happening in the shadows. The US Intelligence Community or IC, as insiders call it, is more powerful than ever, but also more vulnerable than it has been in decades. It is facing the threat of rival intel…
In Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons, Dr. Brittany Friedman delves into how the California Department of Corrections deployed various official, clandestine, and at times extralegal control techniques—including officer alliances with imprisoned white supremacists—to suppress Black political movements, revealing the …
Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative is different. In his book, College in Prison: Reading…
Coriena's journey begins with a mother’s fierce devotion to her son—a love strong enough to risk everything. When faced with a dangerous and volatile situation, Coriena made one of the most difficult decisions of her life—she took her son and fled. With no time to plan and nowhere to go, Coriena chose safety over certainty, even if it meant homeles…
Policing is a source of perennial conflict and philosophical disagreement. Current political developments in the United States have only increased the urgency of this topic. Today we welcome philosopher Jake Monaghan to discuss his book, Just Policing (Oxford UP, 2023), which applies interdisciplinary insights to examine the morality of policing. T…
Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin (Bloombury, 2024) is a unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus. The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of …
What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without police. It's evident that policing is a problem. But what is the best way forward? In Beyond Policing, distinguished scholar and writer Philip V. McHarris reimagines the world without police to find answers and reveal how we can make police departments o…
In the UK’s fully outsourced “immigration detainee escorting system,” private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national citizens. Run and organized like a supply chain, this system dehumanises those who are detained and deported, treating them as if they were packages to be moved from place to place and relying on poor…
#prison #jail #inmate Inmate with no legs extorting people in prison: prison extortion... SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNEL The Incarceration Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @TheIncarcerationPodcast Patreon for Exclusive Content: https://patreon.com/user?u=92069239&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator…
#prison #latinking #jail Daniel shares stories of being a Ex-Latin King in prison, and the wars from the prison battlefield... SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNEL The Incarceration Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @TheIncarcerationPodcast Patreon for Exclusive Content: https://patreon.com/user?u=92069239&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyL…
Atiya Husain’s No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge and Terrorism (Duke University Press, 2025) uses the FBI Most Wanted lists to rethink theoretical relationships between race and Islam in the United States. Husain traces the genealogy of wanted posters and how theories of the “average man” informs the use of photographs and its accompanying descrip…
John and Elizabeth had the chance to talk with Ieva Jusionyte, anthropologist, journalist, emergency medical technician. Her award-winning books include Exit Wounds, which uses anthropological and journalistic methods to follow guns purchased in the United States through organized crime scenes in Mexico, and their legal, social and personal repercu…
Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders. Though the term "homeland security" is closely associated with the United States, Israel is credited with first developing this all-encompassing approach to domestic surveillance and territorial control. To…
Imprisoning a Revolution: Writings from Egypt’s Incarcerated (U California Press, 2025), edited by Collective Antigone, is a groundbreaking collection of writings by political prisoners in Egypt. It offers a unique lens on the global rise of authoritarianism during the last decade. This book contains letters, poetry, and art produced by Egypt’s inc…
Imprisonment was rarely used as punishment in Britain before 1800. The criminal justice system was based on terror and deterrence, sentencing convicts to the gallows at home and transportation overseas, with prisons serving primarily as holding spaces for the accused until the case against them was resolved. A major shift began in the late eighteen…
Today I talked to Mark Neocleous about his new book Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police (Verso, 2025). For more than two decades, Neocleous has been a pioneer in the radical critique of policing, security, and warfare. Today we will discuss his newest work on the theory and practice of pacification, which, he argues, is “social warfare…
Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) is the first detailed account of Louisiana's unprecedented turn to mass incarceratio…
When Only God Can See: The Faith of Muslim Political Prisoners (Pluto Press, 2024), uncovers the unique experiences of Muslim political prisoners held in Egypt and under US custody at Guantanamo Bay and other detention black sites. This groundbreaking book explores the intricate interplay between their religious beliefs, practices of ritual purity,…
Looking closely at New York City's political development since the 1970s, three "political orders"--conservativism, neoliberalism, and egalitarianism--emerged. In Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, Timothy Weaver argues that the intercurrent impact of these orders has created a constant battle for power. Weaver brings these clashes…
The relationship between fear people experience in their lives and the government often informs key questions about the rule of law and justice. In nations where the rule of law is unevenly applied, interpreting the people involved in its enforcement allows for contextualized understanding about why that unevenness occurs and is perpetuated. Joshua…
The asylum--at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse--touched the lives of many Americans living between 1830 and 1950. What began as a few scattered institutions in the mid-eighteenth century grew to 579 public and private asylums by the 1940s. About one out of every 280 Americans was an inmate in an asylum at an annual cost to taxpayer…
In 2015, Patricia Roos’s twenty-five-year-old son Alex died of a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, Roos, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, began to research the social factors and institutional failures that contributed to his death. Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction (Rutgers UP, 2024) tells h…
#prison #jail #prisonstory Jesus shares his first day experience being in a Florida prison..."I was scared"... SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNEL The Incarceration Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @TheIncarcerationPodcast Patreon for Exclusive Content: https://patreon.com/user?u=92069239&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign…
#prison #jail #inmate Josh shares his story about shanks and locks, doing 10 years in Florida prisons... SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNEL The Incarceration Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @TheIncarcerationPodcast Patreon for Exclusive Content: https://patreon.com/user?u=92069239&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creat…
Early Modern Britain was awash with pamphlets, ballads, woodcuts broadcasting bloodthirsty tales of traitorous wives, greedy mistresses, cunning female poisoning lacing the supper with deadly substances; of child killers and spiteful witches, stories of women wholly and unnaturally wicked. These were printed or sung, tacked the walls of alehouses, …
#prison #jail #lockedup Ty shares with us prison stories about gangs, Aryan Brotherhood, and punks in the Tennessee, Kentucky, and Florida prison system... SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNEL The Incarceration Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @TheIncarcerationPodcast Patreon for Exclusive Content: https://patreon.com/user?u=92069239&utm_medium=cl…
#prison #jail #rico Big Lou shares story of getting sentenced to 25 years for conspiracy to traffic 35 keys, rico act, etc... SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNEL The Incarceration Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @TheIncarcerationPodcast Patreon for Exclusive Content: https://patreon.com/user?u=92069239&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLi…
#prison #jail #reaction The world's craziest prison is in El Salvador... SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNEL The Incarceration Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @TheIncarcerationPodcast Patreon for Exclusive Content: https://patreon.com/user?u=92069239&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join…
#prison #jail #trial Max lost trial and was sentenced to 15 years in prison... CONTACT: Farrah Mitchell (Exoneration Lawyer) The “Queen Of Law” provided important information & knowledge for you or someone you know. (From Charlotte, NC) Nationwide Expungement & Exoneration Lawyer/Grant Writer/Author/Owner & CEO Farrah Mitchell (Mitchell Law Firm) C…
T Clark continues to share federal prison stories...especially breaking out of federal prison... SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNEL The Incarceration Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @TheIncarcerationPodcast Patreon for Exclusive Content: https://patreon.com/user?u=92069239&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_…
#prison #jail #inmate T Clark shares the rest of his story, being sentenced to 16 years in prison for conspiracy and racketeering charges... SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNEL The Incarceration Podcast YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @TheIncarcerationPodcast Patreon for Exclusive Content: https://patreon.com/user?u=92069239&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&ut…
In Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (U Chicago Press, 2024), Robin Bernstein tells the story of an Afro-Native teenager named William Freeman who was convicted of a horse theft he insisted he did not commit and sentenced to five years of hard labor in Auburn’s prison. Incensed at being forced to work w…
The podcast episode of Justice Denied explores the personal story of the host, who has been suspended from visiting their incarcerated husband for over a year due to a false accusation. Despite filing an appeal, they were denied and told to appeal again in 12 months, leading to a potential two-year separation. The host highlights the lack of transp…
"Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, …
Today, we're talking with Andrea Clevenger, Community Response Team Case Manager for Mental Health Association Oklahoma. Andrea started with the agency as a Peer Recovery Support Specialist on the original Street Outreach team nearly two years ago before being promoted to Case Manager on our Community Response team – a partnership with the City of …
Today, we're talking with Shay Seals, Service Coordinator for MHAOK’s Long Term Supportive Housing program in Oklahoma City. Shay recently celebrated her one-year anniversary with the Association after two bouts of homelessness and the realization that she wanted a more meaningful career. She and her young daughter spent too many months living out …
Today, we're talking with Kellie Gregory, Program Manager for our Tulsa Street Outreach team. Kellie was born into instability, with a mom and stepfather who battled drug addiction and were in and out of prison. She was a teen mom who went on to spend twenty-two years struggling with homelessness, addiction and the carceral system herself, before e…
Today, we're talking with Jay Johnson, Tulsa Housing Case Manager for Mental Health Association Oklahoma. Jay’s relation with us began a couple of years ago when he, himself, was living on the streets and battling addiction. He is a shining example of why Housing First is so important and effective. Since his time as a participant, Jay has been ste…
This is a re-release of a conversation I had with Stephanie Roberts back in 2023. Since that time, she’s gained two more years of recovery and has been promoted to Program Manager of our Oklahoma City Street Outreach and Rapid Response team. Stephanie is a native Oklahoman who, in childhood, experienced a sexual trauma that went unaddressed, result…
Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2024) shows how surveillance makes people visible and affects their lives, considers the technologies involved and how it grew to its present size and prevalence, and explores…