A True Crime / Belly of The Beast - Prison Podcast
Friends and Ladders Productions
Boss catches us up on his trials and tribulations on the outside and talks about being the president of the Prison Bikers Brotherhood. (PBB) Song: Beast of Burden by the Rolling Stones - performed by Boss, Johnny, and Chris @ Collins Correctional Facility
TIME The Podcast Season 1 Outtakes
Serial killer Richard Cottingham talks with P about doing time with the Black Liberation Army / Weather Underground and former CIA agent Gregary "Gary" Korkula, and the time that he escaped from the Bergen County Courthouse. Status Update: Cottingham describes his life of hell on the inside and his willingness to commit suicide.
Boss talks about hitting rock bottom and his relationship with P, and Boss and P share wildly inappropriate stories about household pets. Status Update: Boss re-enters a prison program and shares the outcome of Johnny's parole hearing. Sign Off : Karoliina teaches Boss and P how to say Motherfucker in Finnish. Music by Boss
Boss and P talk with special guest Anna about how TIME the Podcast came about, P's own personal relationship to incarceration, and how to go to war with the internet.Status Update: P finally begins production on her documentary and Boss cuts his gps monitor off himself. Music: "Can't You See" Cover by Boss. Original song by The Marshall Tucker Band
Boss and P talk about self-medicating for PTSD, hustling meds on the inside, and the New York City mental health crisis that seems to flow effortlessly from the outside, to the inside, and back again. Status Update: Boss moves from a homeless shelter to a prison housing program. Music: "Oh Carolina" by Shaggy
Boss tells P about the time that he staged a protest that forced the entire guard staff to spend Christmas Eve locked inside the prison with the inmates. Boss remembers his favorite Christmas on the inside and instructs P on how to make jailhouse hooch. P schools Boss on Secret Santas. Music by Boss
Recorded on Halloween, Boss and P talk with special guest Jayson Moyer about when Jayson went into prison to meet Boss. Boss teaches Jayson and P how to hide shanks, and P's dad scolds her for swearing too much. Music by Chris and the Mugshots © 2019
Boss and P discuss the many recent criminal cases against correctional officers in Florida. Status Update: Boss becomes combative with his parole officer and other NYC parole staff members after they refuse to remove his ankle monitor. He issues them an ultimatum and risks going back to prison in 2 weeks, after they review his case. Disclaimer: This episode includes descriptions of disturbing acts of violence and may be upsetting to listeners.Music by Boss
Special Guest Johnny calls in from the inside and talks with Boss and P about living in the honor block, inmates freaking out on k2/deuce, and the humanizing process of the parole hearing as he prepares to face the parole board for the 9th time.Music by Boss, Johnny, and Chris on the inside, 2018
Boss and guest Dave Coleman talk about the useless education that inmates get in prison and that time that they built a 3 tiered walking garden at Otisville Prison. Dave's talks about his prison wife, his death list, and bodybuilding competitions on the inside. Music by Boss
Boss talks about brutality that he has witnessed in the LGBTQ arena in prison.Status Update: Boss gets rid of demon killer #2 and learns how to use NYC bus system.Music by Boss. Disclaimer: This episode includes descriptions of disturbing acts of violence and may be upsetting to listeners.
Boss and P talk about notorious murderer/author Jack Henry Abbott and what Abbott was like on the "inside". Boss shares his thoughts on the utter lack of support/guidance for parolees and the threat of re-offending after convicts are released on parole.Status Update: Boss can't get anyone to rent him an apartment as he adjusts to life in his "suit". Music by Boss, Johnny, and Chris on the inside.
Boss and P talk with Special Guest Anna about the relationship between systemic racism and the prison system in America. Status Update: Boss describes having to learn "bullshit" like recycling and having to wear seatbelts on the outside. P takes a ride on Boss's new demon killer. Music by Boss.
Boss finds comfort in his suit of armor and talks with P about "the family business". Status Update: Boss gets a new demon killer and finds a welcoming local hangout. Music by Boss.
Boss talks about what happens to inmates when they reenter population after being released from the box. Status Update: Boss struggles with relationships while living with PTSD, crashes his new car, and Boss and P reset their relationship after a month long break from each other.Music by Boss's prison band
Boss calls out Fox News for lying about his case and talks about what it's like when you're exposed by the media while on the “inside”. Status Update: Boss talks about (the lack of) dental care on the inside. Music by Boss's band @ Collins Correctional Facility
Boss objects to P's relationship with serial killer Richard Cottingham and mulls over his beliefs in the death penalty. Status Update: Boss gets a new demon killer and prepares to move out of his homeless shelter.Music by Boss
Boss talks about the 2015 escape of David Sweat and Richard Matt from Clinton Correctional Facility. Status Update: Boss has a drink with P and misses his curfew.
Boss describes the difficulties of transitioning from a max security prison to a medium, and the “object lessons” that lifers are often compelled to give to the younger convicts who are doing “medium” time. Status Update: Boss dumps his new therapist and P tries to navigate the minefield of Boss's psyche. Music by Boss
Boss talks about the "shit room"; a glass walled room where inmates under "suspicion" are locked naked until they defecate in front of COs three times.Status Update: Boss ruminates on homelessness in NYC and the horrors of Deuce/K2 addiction.Music by Boss
Boss talks about the dark side of convict ingenuity and when he was stabbed multiple times and pronounced dead at Clinton Correctional Facility. Status Update: Boss suffers from assholism.
Boss talks about predators who sabotage inmates' livelihood on the inside and an alleged whistle blower who threatened to report dirty COs only to wind up dead and thrown into the prison dump. Status Update : Boss becomes "Yard Boss" on the outside, and begins to use social media to meet ladies only to face the same breed of predators on the outside. Donna Payant story told by Dave Coleman.
Boss talks about playing in prison bands and having to create his own music programs.Status Update : Boss sees his family for the first time in 41 years.
Boss and guest Thomas Little talk about religion in prison and “knocking on doors” as Jehova's Witnesses on the inside. P reads a letter from “Son of Sam” serial killer (turned born again Christian) David Berkowitz. Boss teaches P how to curse the Holy Spirit. Status Update: Boss grapples with real world stress.
Boss's sexist side gets the better of him as he tells P about doing LSD on the inside and about how he eventually convinced his friends and a CO to force him to stay locked in a cell for two weeks so that he could finally get clean. Status Update: Who needs a therapist when Boss goes for the jugular and P goes apocalyptic.
Boss and P talk about the problem of inmates "slicing themselves up" and swallowing utensils and other items, and Boss delves into the issues with putting psychiatric facilities inside of prisons. Status Update: Boss loses his therapist. P reads messages from friends of TIME. Music by Boss.
Boss and guest Dave Coleman discuss the horrors of living with mental illness in prison. Dave launches a bitter diatribe against the prison system for its failure to care for those with mental illness.
Boss talks about courts, crews, criminal hierarchy and violence in the prison yard. Status update: Boss's gps monitor breaks off and he nearly goes back inside on a parole violation.
Boss talks about prison programs and counselors, and about how he started programs that the system wasn't willing to. P takes Boss off on a tangent about the many uses for a cell toilet. Status Update: Boss “does demons” and doesn't sleep for 5 days.
Boss talks about the demoralizing experience of facing the parole board and about being forced to leave prison in an armored car due to death threats that he received upon his release.
Boss talks about Great Meadow Correctional Facility, AKA Gladiator School. Status Update: Boss learns more about his father during his third therapy session. Disclaimer: This episode includes descriptions of disturbing acts of violence and may be upsetting to listeners.
Boss talks about the time he did with Joseph “Mad Dog” SullivanStatus Update: Boss grapples with darkness and has his second therapy session.
P visits Boss in the hospital after a traumatic accident. Status Update: (Pre-recorded) Boss answers questions from listeners. Closing music by Rocky
Boss talks about doing legal work with legendary jailhouse lawyer, Jerry “Jerry the Jew” Rosenberg, of Attica Prison Riot fame. Boss and P talk about jailhouse lawyer, Bill Phillips, an NYPD Detective allegedly framed for murder by his partners. Status Update: Boss describes his first official therapy session, and Boss and P hash things out. Music: Boss/Milo music lesson, music played by Milo
Boss and guest/friend Dave Coleman share war stories from the inside and discuss systemic abuse in NY State prisons. Disclaimer: This episode includes descriptions of disturbing acts of violence and may be upsetting to listeners.
Boss talks about prison hustles and convict ingenuity. Status Update: Boss gets his driver's license and finds out that his boss is NYPD.
Boss talks about prison girlfriends, smuggling drugs in during visits, and conjugal visits with sex workers. Status Update: Boss meets with a therapist and confronts his past.Disclaimer: This episode includes conversations about family violence and sexual assault, and may be upsetting to listeners. Those who have experienced physical and/or sexual abuse may be uniquely impacted by the content.
Boss tells the story of when he stabbed a CO and got 5 years in solitary and discusses the various types of segregation on the inside. A special guest calls in from Franklin Correctional Facility to tell the story of a brutal attack that got him thrown into the box. Status Update: Boss suffers a breakdown. Disclaimer: This episode includes descriptions of disturbing acts of violence and may be upsetting to listeners.
Boss talks about the intake process at the Elmira Prison Reception Center, a riot that occurred days after he entered “population” , and wanting to “go prison” on people on the outside. Status Update: Boss and P discuss how they first met, and Boss grapples with managing relationships while suffering from severe PTSD. Disclaimer: This episode includes descriptions of disturbing acts of violence and may be upsetting to listeners.
Boss and Amityville Horror Murderer Ronnie DeFeo live, work, and get high together on the inside. Boss talks about getting drugs in solitary, ripping off drug dealers, and tells a story about that time that DeFeo attacked a serial rapist for getting him out in softball. Status Update: Boss hides his past from his co-workers, grapples with being forced to wear a GPS ankle monitor, and talks about "therapy" on the inside.
Boss talks about going into the system, the decisions that inmates are forced to make, and “grudge fucking” correctional officers. Status Update: In his 12th week on the outside, Boss talks about his triumphs, failures and paralyzing panic attacks, while grappling with a strong desire to go back inside.
Boss tells the story of his escape plan that turned to mayhem and left 3 people dead, a gruesome murder that he witnessed in his early days of incarceration at Elmira Correctional Facility, and how it all eventually led to him being elected shot caller. End of Episode Status Update: Recently released from prison after serving 41 years, Boss and friend Paula discuss the difficulties in his reintegration.