Showing results for "The Sentence" in Biographies & Memoirs

A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the "Apologetic Bandit" In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately...

Death Sentence is a three-part investigative podcast examining America’s ultimate punishment through the cases that force the hardest questions. Hosted by Ava Grey, the series explores the federal death row cases of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, then steps back to interrogate the future of capital punishment itself. With unflinching reporting, survivor-centered storytelling, and clear-eyed legal analysis, Death Sentence goes beyond headlines to ask how justice is defined, who it serves, and whether the state should ever hold the power to ...

Richard Pryor journeys from his childhood in a family that worked in whore-houses and bars, through to his years in Hollywood - the money, the women, the drugs - and the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.

Carl Williams' role as unlikely gang boss in the Melbourne Gangland Wars had made him one of the most infamous names in Australian criminal history. In 2007 he was sentenced to 35 years' jail in a high security unit. In 2008 he was given access to a personal computer where, confined to a tiny cell for most of the day, Williams began a daily correspondence with his friends and family, covering his life in jail, his thoughts and hopes for the future and his views and opinions on everyone from barristers and judges to fellow criminals and deadly rivals.

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes listeners inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison.

Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List. He was vice president of a Jersey City bank and had moved his mother, wife, and three teenage children into a 19-room home in Westfield, New Jersey. But all that changed when he lost his job. Raised by his Lutheran father to believe success meant being a good provider, List saw himself as an utter failure. Straining under financial burdens, the stress of hiding his unemployment, as well as the fear that the free-spirited 1970s would corrupt the souls of his children, List came to a shattering conclusion.

What if I wrote letters to notorious criminals in jail and NEVER mentioned their crimes? Would they write me back? Each episode of PRISON SENTENCES, focuses on one criminal, the letter I wrote to them and the one I got back. In other words, a prisoner sentenced to life, writing someone who needs to get a life. PRISON SENTENCES. Where my humour… is the real crime.

Join best friends, Katie and Alexandria as they shine a light on the dark subject of sexual abuse. Providing insight from past experiences about the effects it has on not just the victim, but everyone around them.

Hosts Erin Keith and Paul Randall Adams review Lifetime movies based on true crimes and research the actual crimes that inspired them. Follow along as Erin watches and reviews made-for-TV movies based on heinous acts of crime, then join Paul as he delves into the truth behind the actual crimes.

Concealing nothing, WASATAS is exactly as it seems: Words and Sentences About Things and Stuff. Join co-hosts Anthony and Gavin on an encyclopedic adventure through word associated thoughts and themes, both relevant and inconsequential. There are truly no rules, or redos, in this completely unscripted and unstructured podcast where literally anything and everything is on the table.

On his thirty-fifth birthday, Niven Neyland was riding high—a thriving business, beautiful fiancée, close-knit family, loving big brother. Until one wrong decision behind the wheel resulted in his brother’s death, loss of his business, shattered dreams, and a prison sentence for alcohol-related vehicular manslaughter. But finding himself inside prison walls turned out to be the greatest of blessings because in that dark place Niv encountered the light of God’s mercy and love, and true freedom within prison walls.

A testament to the indomitable human spirit and the power of a mother's love, this story of a wrongfully incarcerated woman's fight for freedom and her family will inspire all. Judy Henderson was a single mother with a successful small business of her own when she was arrested and convicted of a...

1985. Gun Barrel City, Texas. Police searching for missing Fire Department captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly tended garden of Beets's wife, forty-eight-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasn't long before investigators unearthed the terrible truth. As Betty Lou's sordid past emerged, so did her chilling trail of marital violence.

Welcome. The purpose of this podcast and it's blog is to help educate and empower those who have or had a loved one in prison. Raising awareness one story at a time. Did you know that the chances are very high that someone you know has had a loved one incarcerated? Or maybe you are part of the millions of people in the US population who has had a loved one in the prison system? This Podcast is for you. Indirectly we are all affected, and if you have a loved one in prison you are probably doing the time even though you committed no crime. This is the hidden sentence that nobody talks about. The...

Hear rapper Percy Carey, AKA MF Grimm; wrestler Mary Lillian Ellison, AKA The Fabulous Moolah; film director Ruth Leitman; and film critic John Powers, on this edition of Fresh Air. MF Grimm is in a wheelchair, after surviving several murder attempts. He's just published an autobiographical graphic novel entitled Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm. He's also released a new album, his sixth: The Hunt for the Gingerbread Man.