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The Shakedown — 67 episodes

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1

What Do Felons Do AFTER Prison?

2

What you need to know in case you get arrested

3

What is Crime?

4

Prison Food - It's Worse Than You Think

5

Commissary - Prison Crash Course Part II

6

Prison Visits - Prison Crash Course I

7

What do Pardons Mean for Justice?

8

Can We Prevent Crime?

9

The Secret Lives of Prison Officers

10

On Talking Crime

11

Career Criminals, Superpredators, and What Everyone Gets Wrong About Crime

12

The Power of Incentives

13

Therapy in Prison

14

How to Get Books in Prison

15

Respect: In and Out of Prison

E
16

Snitches and Talking About Life After Jail

E
17

Joy's Story

E
18

Is Slavery Rehabilitation?

19

Are Criminal Politicians Inspiring?

20

Let's Talk Criminal Justice Solutions

21

Does Mass Incarceration Work?

22

Buy One, Get One Free...Murder?

23

An Introduction to Bail Bonds

24

How Do We Help? Mental Health & Criminal Justice Part 3

25

Is there prison mental healthcare?

26

Criminal Justice and Mental Health

27

Appeals and Coffee

28

Guide to Cellmates Pt. II: The House Mouse, Solitary, & Cellie Politics

29

Prison Phones and the Real Company Making Money Off of Inmates

30

The Shakedown's Guide to Cellmates

31

Prison Revenge Stories

E
32

Parole and Other Ways Companies Make Money From Prison

33

Extortion and the "Good Old Days" of Texas Prisons

E
34

How to End Political Debates with Prisons

E
35

A Digital Billboard in Jail?

36

The Case System in Prisons

37

Do Prisons Put Us At Risk?

38

Malone Discusses the Mindset That Creates Different Types of Punishments

E
39

Should We Discuss Race and Prisons?

40

Attitudes of Gratitude

E
41

The Shakedown Returns!

E
42

How to Talk About Prison Abolition - Part I

43

What Happened to Rainy's Commitment - Part II: The Wrath of Rainforest

44

What Happened to Rainy's Commitment? - Part I

45

What are our Achievements?

E
46

How Do We Fix the System? - The Future of Prisons Part 2

47

What Does Lock 'em Up Really Mean? - The Future of Prisons Part 1

48

What is PREA?

49

Let's Talk About Prison Security

50

Does Prison Make You Racist? - Socializing in Prison Part 2

51

Socializing in Prison - Part 1

52

Rainforest Tells Trusty Camp Stories

53

What's so BAD about Cop Shows?

54

What Should We Do With Sex Offenders?

55

Commitments and Weekenders

56

What Happened to Malone?

57

What do inmates do with their time?

58

What do you know about Criminal Justice?

59

Can Society Prevent Crime Without Punishment?

E
60

Who are the West Memphis 3? Are there Occult Crimes? What do police confessions have to do with it?

61

Making Comics in Prison - Fan Expo Panel

62

The Shakedown Goes on The Prison Show

63

What is a Criminal?

64

Episode 4 - Who are trustees and what is a shakedown?

E
65

Episode 3 - Let's Meet Ben David

E
66

Episode 2 - Do we need prisons?

E
67

Episode 1 - Who are We?