This week, Denise, Draper, and Ashley sit down with criminologist, professor and DU Prison Arts Initiative (DU PAI) faculty advisor, Dr. Jeff Lin. Dr. Lin is interested in the ways that criminal outcomes are impacted by systemic arrangements of policy and practice. Using quantitative and comparative methods, he has examined these dynamics among juvenile offenders, parolees, and sex offenders, and through analyses of media coverage of serious crime and the effects of large-scale changes to state correctional policies. Pulling from his own research and knowledge base, Jeff discusses sentencing laws and answers questions about who is in prison, and what prison is for.

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5: Fear Made the Lion, Part 1

With(in) is an award winning podcast committed to shifting the conversation on who is in prison, specifically within the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC). Through meaningful, complex and enlightening conversations with incarcerated people and others in and around the criminal justice system we are committed to revealing our shared humanity across the system. 

With(in) is a collaboration between the DU Prison Arts Initiative (DU PAI) and the CDOC and is recorded across three correctional facilities in Colorado: Sterling Correctional Facility, Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center and Denver Women’s Correctional Facility. With(in) Season 1 was released in September of 2019 and Season 2 was crafted virtually during the Covid-19 pandemic and was released in September of 2021. 

With(in) is co-hosted by Andrew Draper (incarcerated in Sterling Correctional Facility) and Denise Presson (incarcerated in Denver Women’s Correctional Facility). With(in) Season 2 is fully imagined, edited and produced by the With(in) team. All of our recording, editing, sound engineering, music production, art production and poetry comes from inside the Colorado Department of Corrections. Come with us With(in).