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Episode 219 – Interview with Dr. Robin Bernstein

Dr. Bernstein is a cultural historian at Harvard, teaching US Racial Formation since the early 19th century. Her latest book, Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, delves into the history of America’s first prisons in New York built along capitalist ideals, and how one young man violently rebelled against the unfair and abusive treatment therein. One man’s violent resistance response to injustice continues today to shape American perspectives on race, violence, and incarceration. … Continue…Episode 219 – Interview with Dr. Robin Bernstein

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Episode 158 – Interview with Keegan Patterson

Come with us to hear the beginnings of a media empire. Keegan Patterson discusses turning his experience of dating a prisoner into a blog, a podcast, and a series of novels. If you want to know about prison relationships, he has a lot to tell you. If you want ideas about how to write, he has a lot of good notes about how to tell it in multiple formats. Have a listen, it’s not illegal to talk! … Continue…Episode 158 – Interview with Keegan Patterson