All Episodes
Evolving Prisons — 112 episodes
Execution: who gets the death penalty and why?
Execution: inside the capital jury room
Execution: the toll on execution workers
Execution: the truth about lethal injection
Under pressure: the trauma expert
Under pressure: the paramedic
Under pressure: the prison officer
Under pressure: the army colonel
Under pressure: the police officer
Under pressure: the firefighter
Meeting the boys who killed our son: a restorative justice conversation
Coercive control and the pathway to homicide
Inside the parole board
Communications Management Units and the toll journalism takes
A GP in prison: the challenge of treating incarcerated patients
Leaving finance for prison & working with white collar prisoners
Working inside the UK's first community custody unit for women
High-risk prisoners, Covid-19 & changing values
Working with people imprisoned for sexual offences
Wildlife biologist becomes a prison officer in a county jail
The case of Jodi Jones
The other side of imprisonment: how families cope
Christmas at Eastern State Penitentiary
Denmark's prisons: beyond the Nordic ideal
Family crime and culture shaped me as a prison officer
Insights from witnessing 28 executions on death row
Prison work and paranormal stories from HMP Shrewsbury
Working with women who kill
Dr Amanda Brown on being a prison doctor
Work follows them home: being married to a prison officer
History of prisons in America
Imprisoned 14 hours from my husband and children
Lessons from 26 years in the prison service
Eye-opening experiences teaching art in prison
Inside the mind of madness: forensic psychiatry in prison
Camaraderie, culture and challenges with mental health
7 years in prison in Ecuador for drug smuggling
34 years in prison: finding a dead man in my home
You can be innocent and spend 17 years in prison
Life as a prison bride
Growing up with drug-addicted parents
40 years on death row and still in prison: William Noguera
Rob Parkes on being married to the black widow
Gang life, knife crime and 8 years in prison
Gen Glaister on working with traffickers and sex offenders as a prison officer
Prison gangs in California
Is inequality in our society responsible for crime?
Death, mental health and violence in prison
Imprisoned for being a corrupt prison officer
Strangeways prison riot
The heavy burden of being a prison officer
The case of Brianna Ghey
Vanessa Frake on escapes, riots and prison officer mental health
The minds of serial killers
The prisoner and the judge
Prison saved my life
Christmas time in prison
Prison as a criminogenic need and desistance from crime
Mental health struggles of a prison officer
Alex South on strength, suffering and survival in prison
Female leadership in prison, assault and the Banged Up experience
Paranormal Prisons: Haunted Halloween Tales
Prison officer wellbeing and power in Finland
Imprisoned by choice: a researcher in Icelandic prisons
Inside Finland's first smart prison
A mother's fight for fair sentencing
Political prisoners and officer safety in Northern Ireland
The case of Lucy Letby
Imprisoned for shooting my sister's ex-boyfriend
Spending half my life in prison
Conspiracy to supply and relationships in prison
Exploring the IPP prisoner scandal
Prison and the death penalty
Governing a prison, hostage taking and working with sex offenders
Defending prisoners on death row
Working in a prison system which harms
Death in custody and transforming prisons
Philosophy and family in prison
Working to free the wrongfully convicted
17.5 years imprisonment for manslaughter
Prisoners Abroad
Prison and drug smuggling in Mexico
Is Florida's prison sentencing too harsh?
Corruption, prison conditions and working undercover
Prisoner to world record holder
Koestler Arts in prison
Drug addiction: criminality or health issue?
The importance of doing the right thing
Having a son in prison
Imprisonment for attempted murder
Prison officer training in Scotland and Norway
Living with PTSD as a prison officer
Music in Prisons
Unlocked Graduates
Imprisoned in the UK's most violent prison without any convictions
Prison officer turned prisoner
Psychological dangers of prison work
Budget-constrained prisons in Africa and Asia
Bastøy Prison in Norway
Stuck in the prison system for 20 years
Heroin to Hero
Beyond the criminal labels
Transforming prisons for growth and change
World's most humane prison?
Trauma-informed prisons
Drug treatment prisons
Desistance is a life-long journey
Assassination and solitary confinement
Penalised for my conviction
Loneliness in prison
A better way to do prison
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