About this episode

The episode explores various aspects of prison life, including the taste of prison wine and the dynamics of prison debate.

What's prison wine taste like? How's trade work? Where do people get the ink for prison tattoos? If someone sees you cry in the slammer, do you get beaten up? If they beat you up, can you whittle your toothbrush down and shank 'em later? And, crucially, how is prison debate different than high school debate, if at all?

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Heaton

Topics covered

• prison life
• prison wine
• tattoos
• debate
• violence
• trade

Keywords

• prison hooch
• prison wine
• tattoos
• debate
• violence
• trade

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