Is True Crime Keeping Me in Prison?

Is True Crime Keeping Me in Prison?

Prison journalist John J. Lennon on how TV producers exploit incarcerated people for their true-crime shows.

This Morgan Freeman True-Crime Series Is a Must-See and the Trailer Alone Kept Me on the Edge of My Seat

As if I needed another reminder that my devices are always listening, this one hit a little too perfectly. I had just wrapped up rewatching Prison Break for the—I don’t even know—fifth? Sixth? Let’s just say a lot of times. If you’ve never seen it, the title says it all: it’s men breaking out of prison and, yes, it’s as intense and addictive as it sounds. So imagine my surprise when, right as I’m mourning the end of Michael Scofield and his crew…

An incarcerated man describes the negative impact on some prisoners of true crime shows, which fail to contextualize and exploit their participation

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