Today we bring you a jam-packed variety show! We kick off the hour with a discussion of the Mueller report and what it means for the Trump presidency with guest Eric Umansky from ProPublica. Next, prison activist Ben Turk offers updates on the Wisconsin prisoners’ hunger strike against solitary confinement. And in the final segment, […]
Forensic Psychology
Tonight, this episode of the Perpetual Notion Machine looks into the field of forensic psychology. No, it’s not the glamorous and ingenious world portrayed by Hollywood programs like Making a Murderer and Criminal Minds. Simplistically, it’s just the intersection of psychology and the justice system, that is, taking the skills of psychology and applying it […]
Judge: Unabomber Has It Better! than WI Incarcerated Juveniles
In June, U.S. District Court Judge James Peterson condemned the State of Wisconsin Department of Corrections for maltreatment of teenage inmates at the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake juvenile detention centers. Calling the Department of Corrections “callously indifferent” to the welfare of its inmates, Judge Peterson noted that Ted Kaczinski, also known as the Unabomber, […]
Prison Reform Needs
Gil Halstead hosts a program about prison reform needed in Wisconsin. It’s a mix of discussion and music. Prison doors slam on close to 3000 people in Wisconsin each year. They are people on parole or probation locked up not for committing a crime but for breaking a rule of their supervision like missing […]
