On this episode of Morbid Curiosity, we discuss prisons and the practices that we are mostly familiar with such as last meals, conjugal visits, solitary confinement, and capital punishment. Find out on this episode whether we are for or against the Death Penalty. What is your stance on the matter? Let us know on Twitter @morbidpod or Facebook!
We also discuss the recent tragedy in Orlando. Our hearts will always be with the victims and families of those who survived and those who did not... We will never forget.
Produced by:
Quills Rodriguez
Editing and Art/Design by:
Penn Aragon
EPISODE 2 SHOW NOTES:
CLIP #1:
Inside Prison Life In Solitary 2014 Documentary Prisons Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W143YSJHqSM
Documentary TV Official Channel
Published on Aug 26, 2015
Standard YouTube License
CLIP #2:
An Inmate's Last Meal | Death Row: The Last 24 Hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lplnFdgw0kQ
The Discovery Channel special DEATH ROW: THE LAST 24 HOURS
Published on Apr 18, 2012
Discovery Channel
http://www.discovery.com
Standard YouTube License
CLIP 3
George Carlin [Napalm & Silly Putty]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmUtNWHJGGc
Published on Aug 11, 2014
CLIP 4
6x9: a virtual experience of solitary confinement
[The Guardian]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2016/apr/27/6x9-a-virtual-experience-of-solitary-confinement
Take the 360 degree video experience of solitary confinement in US prisons, which places viewers in a virtual segregation cell they can explore and interact with. It highlights the psychological effects of long-term solitary confinement for people who have experienced it first-hand around the world.
Standard YouTube License
CLIP 5
NPR Interview:
Making It on the Outside, After Decades in Solitary (Laura Sullivan)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5589778
July 28, 2006
Heard on: All Things Considered
CLIP 6
There Will Be No Stay Official Trailer 1 (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF6VVZVcSMY
Published on Nov 18, 2013
A documentary about the death penalty -- not in any way you've ever seen before, at least. It is, however, a film about the actual men who are tasked by society with carrying out the death penalty. This is a first-hand look at executioners, the pressures they're put under, and the unbearable toll the act of taking another's life has on their own.
Standard YouTube License
CLIP 7
Angola Prison Hospice: Opening the Door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMLjANwBRDk
Uploaded on Sep 8, 2011
Half of the 5,000 inmates at the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola are serving life sentences, and it is estimated that 85 percent of them will grow old and die there. Edgar Barens's documentary examines one of the nation's first prison-based hospice programs, a program that notably incorporates inmate volunteers into the care of other dying inmates.
Opening the Door was produced by two former OSF programs, the Center on Crime, Communities & Culture and the Prioject on Death in America.