Crime & Deviance: Podcasts

These are episodes tagged "prison diaries" from the more general podcast Radio Diaries. Episodes include audio journals from inmates, corrections officers, and a judge who recorded sounds of a day behind bars: roll call, meals, family visits, and shakedowns.

From seventeen states around the U.S., a team of students interview witnesses (people who work in prisons, live near prisons, and the formerly incarcerated) about how the prison boom is affecting their lives.

In these episodes, you will hear from people serving time, both inside and outside the criminal justice system. They share stories about how mass incarceration can change families and communities, with an emphasis on its effects on children.