All prisoners have the right to marry, but there are lots of restrictions. You can't exchange rings or request a special ceremony, there's thick glass separating the couple and even applying for the marriage license itself can be complicated. I
Thousands of Los Angeles County prisoners are housed in Pitchess Detention center, 50 miles from the inner city neighborhoods where police make many arrests. For visitors, the journey to the jail can take all day. The closest bus stop is a mile
One small neighborhood in Los Angeles accounted for hundreds of bookings into county jail over a five year period - and more than a million dollars in incarceration costs.
In this final episode, Sam concludes the Reimagining Prison Podcast, sitting down with Chris Hendry who will be replacing Sam as the National Director of the Warden Exchange program at Prison Fellowship upon Sam's retirement in September.In t
Continuing his series of conversations with Prison Fellowship staff members, Sam sits down in this episode with Will Riddle and Vanessa Franklin. Will is the Vice President of Church Programs at Prison Fellowship and Vanessa is the National Dir
In today's episode, Sam chats with Prison Fellowship Academy Program Director, Darryl Brooks at the Carol Vance unit in Houston, Texas. Listen in to hear about Darryl's personal story of transformation and the work that Prison Fellowship contin
This episode, we're revisiting Sam's conversation with then Warden Melinda Braman as they walked through Parnell Correctional Center's "Vocational Village." The Vocational Village at Parnell equips incarcerated men for employment opportunities
In this episode, Sam looks back at our very first episode, a conversation with Rick Raemisch. At the time of this episode's original release, Rick was the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, but he has since retired.
In this episode, Sam chats with Alex Sanchez, the Warden of the IAH Detention Center in Texas. Alex is also an employee of Management and Training Corporation (MTC), a private corrections entity with a transformative philosophy of transformatio
In this episode, Sam sits down with Leo Bottary, award-winning author, founder of Peernovation, adjunct professor for Rutgers university, columnist for CEO World Magazine, public speaker and cohost of the Peernovation podcast. Listen in as they
In this second of a two-part conversation, Sam chats with Dean Williams, the Executive Director of the Department of Corrections in the state of Colorado. If you haven't already, we encourage you to first listen to episode 71 (https://soundclou