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Hard Time: A Look At The Law Inside The Walls

Jake Welder and Jonathan Bates

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Episode list

62

  • May 30, 2025

    56 min

    171. Cheering Up Jon

    The Louisiana Ten was just another case of corrupt officials setting up COs to look bad, and the professional takes another beating. In this episode, Jake attempts to cheer Jon up....

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  • May 23, 2025

    57 min

    170: Well, Shit: Louisiana 10 Escape

    Ten inmates escaped f rom the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office law enforcement center. They ripped out the toilet with some help from a maintenance guy afraid of taking a shank, and...

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  • May 17, 2025

    1 hr 10 min

    169. Mega Jail: Is It America's Answer?

    Nayib Bukele scares the left. He cleaned up the murder capital of the world-- El Salvador-- and he did it with a tough on crime approach that would that would shock our 8th Amendme...

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  • May 9, 2025

    1 hr 1 min

    168. Lobotomies for Criminals: Worse Than Death?

    Today we look at Rickey Ray Rector, who killed people. Then, refusing to go to jail, he stove his own brain in with a .38. He survived of course. His lawyer said he was like a 4 ye...

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  • May 3, 2025

    1 hr 7 min

    167. Death By Restraint Chair

    In Montgomery County, Christian Black stole a car, crashed it, went to jail, banged his head against the wall, fought the officers, despite tasing a pepper spray, and managed to pu...

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  • April 28, 2025

    1 hr 43 min

    166. No Beautiful Way To Kill

    Dying is ugly. Killing someone is even uglier. Nitrogen asphyxiation is being sold to us as the new, easy and painless way to put people to death. But are we finding that it isn't ...

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