Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchInside the Yard: Prison Guard Reveals What Really Happened to Hugo Pinell
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We sit down with retired California CO Jimmy Johnston, who activated New Folsom, survived riots, mixed yards, and a preventable stabbing, and lays out how leadership, training, and ego …
Published on 14 hours ago
Locked Doors, Hard Lessons: The Jail Taught Him What Ego Never Could
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We follow Goldie from a San Bernardino childhood to a disciplined career that starts in juvenile hall, grinds through a tough sheriff’s academy, and faces violence and addiction inside …
Published on 1 week ago
Inside Law Enforcement: Lost Protections, Legal Paths, And Real Costs
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Imagine swearing an oath to serve, only to discover that the rules you enforce don’t fully protect you. We sit down with attorney Mila Aretunian to unpack the hidden tradeoffs of a badg…
Published on 1 week, 2 days ago
From Encino To High Power: A Life Inside California’s Prison Machine
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The story starts with a red light, a door cracked open, and a desperate roll onto Wilshire Boulevard. From there, Scott takes us inside a bullet-torn Mercedes, a judge who called it an …
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
From Dope To Duty To Deliverance
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We follow Ross from a Wisconsin childhood to street hustles, an Air Force enlistment, relapse, a near-fatal overdose, and a rebuild through surgeries and recovery. Raw details on brain …
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
From Baghdad Streets To Healing First Responders
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We trace a Muslim infantryman’s path from the Iraq surge and a life at a Baghdad outpost to a long run in New Jersey law enforcement, a brutal mental health spiral, and a mission to fix…
Published on 1 month ago
Healing From The Inside Out
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We trace Paul’s path from childhood violence and years in group homes to the moment fatherhood unlocked buried memories, and how that pain turned into a mission serving veterans, cops, …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Saving A Child, Surviving The Job, And Speaking Up
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Two Marines cross paths and change a life. Gilbert traces a path from cadet drills and satellite comms in Helmand to a rural deputy’s hostage rescue, the grief that followed, and the ch…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
From Juvenile Life To Freedom
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We trace a Sacramento kid’s path from petty theft to a 50-to-life sentence at fourteen, through High Desert’s politics and violence, to an education-driven transformation that ended in …
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
A Former White Prisoner on Gangs, Meth, and Redemption in California’s System
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We trace Jason’s path from teenage addiction and county jail codes to California prisons, a violent turning point in Kern County, and the climb back through sobriety, faith, and service…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago