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All Episodes

Evolving Prisons — 112 episodes

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Execution: who gets the death penalty and why?

2

Execution: inside the capital jury room

3

Execution: the toll on execution workers

4

Execution: the truth about lethal injection

5

Under pressure: the trauma expert

6

Under pressure: the paramedic

7

Under pressure: the prison officer

8

Under pressure: the army colonel

9

Under pressure: the police officer

10

Under pressure: the firefighter

11

Meeting the boys who killed our son: a restorative justice conversation

12

Coercive control and the pathway to homicide

13

Inside the parole board

14

Communications Management Units and the toll journalism takes

15

A GP in prison: the challenge of treating incarcerated patients

16

Leaving finance for prison & working with white collar prisoners

17

Working inside the UK's first community custody unit for women

18

High-risk prisoners, Covid-19 & changing values

19

Working with people imprisoned for sexual offences

20

Wildlife biologist becomes a prison officer in a county jail

21

The case of Jodi Jones

22

The other side of imprisonment: how families cope

23

Christmas at Eastern State Penitentiary

24

Denmark's prisons: beyond the Nordic ideal

25

Family crime and culture shaped me as a prison officer

26

Insights from witnessing 28 executions on death row

27

Prison work and paranormal stories from HMP Shrewsbury

28

Working with women who kill

29

Dr Amanda Brown on being a prison doctor

30

Work follows them home: being married to a prison officer

31

History of prisons in America

32

Imprisoned 14 hours from my husband and children

33

Lessons from 26 years in the prison service

34

Eye-opening experiences teaching art in prison

35

Inside the mind of madness: forensic psychiatry in prison

36

Camaraderie, culture and challenges with mental health

37

7 years in prison in Ecuador for drug smuggling

38

34 years in prison: finding a dead man in my home

39

You can be innocent and spend 17 years in prison

40

Life as a prison bride

41

Growing up with drug-addicted parents

42

40 years on death row and still in prison: William Noguera

43

Rob Parkes on being married to the black widow

44

Gang life, knife crime and 8 years in prison

45

Gen Glaister on working with traffickers and sex offenders as a prison officer

46

Prison gangs in California

47

Is inequality in our society responsible for crime?

48

Death, mental health and violence in prison

49

Imprisoned for being a corrupt prison officer

50

Strangeways prison riot

51

The heavy burden of being a prison officer

52

The case of Brianna Ghey

53

Vanessa Frake on escapes, riots and prison officer mental health

54

The minds of serial killers

55

The prisoner and the judge

56

Prison saved my life

57

Christmas time in prison

58

Prison as a criminogenic need and desistance from crime

59

Mental health struggles of a prison officer

60

Alex South on strength, suffering and survival in prison

61

Female leadership in prison, assault and the Banged Up experience

62

Paranormal Prisons: Haunted Halloween Tales

63

Prison officer wellbeing and power in Finland

64

Imprisoned by choice: a researcher in Icelandic prisons

65

Inside Finland's first smart prison

66

A mother's fight for fair sentencing

67

Political prisoners and officer safety in Northern Ireland

68

The case of Lucy Letby

69

Imprisoned for shooting my sister's ex-boyfriend

70

Spending half my life in prison

71

Conspiracy to supply and relationships in prison

72

Exploring the IPP prisoner scandal

73

Prison and the death penalty

74

Governing a prison, hostage taking and working with sex offenders

75

Defending prisoners on death row

76

Working in a prison system which harms

77

Death in custody and transforming prisons

78

Philosophy and family in prison

79

Working to free the wrongfully convicted

80

17.5 years imprisonment for manslaughter

81

Prisoners Abroad

82

Prison and drug smuggling in Mexico

83

Is Florida's prison sentencing too harsh?

84

Corruption, prison conditions and working undercover

85

Prisoner to world record holder

86

Koestler Arts in prison

87

Drug addiction: criminality or health issue?

88

The importance of doing the right thing

89

Having a son in prison

90

Imprisonment for attempted murder

91

Prison officer training in Scotland and Norway

92

Living with PTSD as a prison officer

93

Music in Prisons

94

Unlocked Graduates

95

Imprisoned in the UK's most violent prison without any convictions

96

Prison officer turned prisoner

97

Psychological dangers of prison work

98

Budget-constrained prisons in Africa and Asia

99

Bastøy Prison in Norway

100

Stuck in the prison system for 20 years

101

Heroin to Hero

102

Beyond the criminal labels

103

Transforming prisons for growth and change

104

World's most humane prison?

105

Trauma-informed prisons

106

Drug treatment prisons

107

Desistance is a life-long journey

108

Assassination and solitary confinement

109

Penalised for my conviction

110

Loneliness in prison

111

A better way to do prison

112

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