Can You Fix Crime?

Can You Fix Crime?

Video Description: Live talk at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs featuring host of The Shakedown, Ryan Forbes; Chief of UCCS campus police, Dewayne McCarver; Professor of Sociology, Dr. Edwardo Portillos; and Aiyanna Quinones, representative from UCCS student government. 00:00:00 – Introduction and Discussion Rules 00:05:41 – Introduction to Dr. Edwardo Portillos 00:06:34 – Introduction to […]

SD 312 – How Can We Help? Mental Health & Criminal Justice Part 3

SD 312 - How Can We Help? Mental Health & Criminal Justice Part 3

Video Description: We look at ways to improve prisons and mental healthcare with Heather of the Hot Mess Espresso podcast. We discuss the tactics that individuals can do to help ensure everyone can get help instead of end up in jails and prisons. 988 Crisis Line: https://988lifeline.org/ Heather and the Hot Mess Espresso podcast on […]

Is there prison mental healthcare?

Is there prison mental healthcare?

Video Description: We continue our discussion of mental healthcare in prisons with Heather of the Hot Mess Espresso podcast. We discuss the availability of mental healthcare in prisons, each of our personal experiences, what it takes to get healthcare, and what healthcare actually looks like for an inmate. Heather and the Hot Mess Espresso podcast […]

SD 310 – Criminal Justice and Mental Health

SD 310 - Criminal Justice and Mental Health

Video Description: Heather of the Hot Mess Espresso podcast joins The Shakedown to discuss Mental Health and Criminal Justice. We get into addiction, toxic masculinity, coping strategies, and even…Ben David? Heather and the Hot Mess Espresso podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmess.espresso The Hot Mess Espresso Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@hotmessespresso https://tr.ee/QiSv9zWB8P About the Colorado Center for Dependency, Addiction, and […]

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

guide to cell mates

Video Description: Dave and Rainforest continue to discuss cellies (cellmates). In this episode, “house mice”, what can get you a solitary cell and what that looks like, suicide watch, the politics required for having a cellie, and the type of people who take the job as prison officer. Support The Shakedown at: https://www.patreon.com/TheShakedown More about […]

Prison Revenge Stories

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Video Description: As we attempt to discuss the issues and costs of prison transportation, we run into some connection issues and Malone starts telling stories from his 30 years in prison. First, he discusses the an inmate’s ultimate revenge against a field boss. Then he discusses how inmates took advantage of a prison transport and […]

How to End Political Debates with Prisons

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Video Description: As the gang starts planning out an episode, we discover that Malone and Rainforest have some pretty major differences in political ideology. Dave discovers a great way to bring the conversation back to reality by focusing on what the current issues in prisons. We discuss heat in prisons and the goods that TCI […]

The Shakedown 131: Does Prison Make Us At Risk?

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Video Description: Part 2 of Malone’s live, in-studio discussion. In this part, Malone tells stories of his experiences of how prison has actually made life more dangerous for all of us, everyday. More about The Shakedown at: https://shakedown.show Find Shakedown merch and support us at: https://wayword.press More about Nina the Pitbull at: @nina_is_a_pitbull 00:00 – […]

The Shakedown 134: The Case System in Prisons

two men in prison cell reading a book titled "How to Get Out of Jail

Video Description: Even in prison inmates can get locked up in administrative segregation, or get new charges to extend their sentence. We explain how the court system in prison is drastically different and far more terrifying than the one outside of prisons. Link to the story about the case of the officer’s planting the screwdriver: […]

The Shakedown 202: A Digital Billboard in Jails?

A cell phone displaying the message "how does this get you out of jail?" with a blank screen

Video Description: On this very special episode, we have on Paul Buckley and Ramses Merriman of the Baumy Group to discuss the TOWR, a digital billboard system used to provide information to people in jails and their families. We discuss what information people are looking for in jail, how the TOWR can help distribute that […]