One Minute Remaining - Stories from the inmates

"The story of how I got here is deeply painful. Years ago I was married to a man who was mercilessly verbally and mentally abusive to me and my children. I wanted to press through the anguish to keep our family together, but then his behavior escalated. I had no choice but to leave to protect our child.

A year later, I had moved on and was 30 weeks pregnant with another man's child. My estranged husband was enraged and, in a volatile verbal exchange, stabbed me in my stomach. He then raped me. I fought back to defend myself. In a blur, I ended up in the hospital, with my child devastatingly born prematurely. I then learned that, while it was never my intention, my ex-husband died."

These are the words of Susan Brown a lady serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for what she says was self defense.

This is her story, as told by here from prison in Michigan.

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In one of my last phone conversations with Emilia Carr, the woman serving two life sentences for murder and kidnapping (A crime she's always maintained she's innocent of) she was frustrated and angry at how the conditions within the prison were deteriorating. Lack of sleep, poor conditions and the constant distain and lack of empathy shown by the prison officers.

She also went on to voice her frustration about how movies and TV almost glamourise prison and crime, shows like 'Orange is The New Black' make out that prison is not all that bad, its pretty comfortable and just a place to kick back and do your time. The reality, she says, couldn't be further from the truth,

So does pop culture, movies and TV glamourise this harsh world and if so who's to blame? It's an interesting topic and one that I wanted to explore! so I sat down with Simon and Sonia from the pop culture podcast to discuss exactly that.

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It's our Birthday and you get the presents!

This is the first of our four bonus subscriber episodes that we'll be releasing as a special thank you this month for all the amazing support we have received this year. This is for a limited time only and will be gone soon.

We are starting with the incredible story of Rob Langdon.

A former Australian soldier who after leaving the military started working as a private contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan.

While in Afghanistan Rob would have a gun pointed at him, he would shoot and kill the armed man in self defence. A series of events after this would see Rob arrested and sentenced to death. Rob talks me through the situation and the next seven years that he spent locked up in an Afghan prison.

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We've just wrapped up the story of Evaristo Salas Jnr and today I sit down with our resident Attorney Michael Leonard to get his thoughts on the case.

Evaristo Salas was accused of firing two shots into Jose Arreola’s head in Sunnyside in November 1995.

He was tried as an adult and convicted by a jury of first-degree murder three days after his 16th birthday and was sentenced to nearly 33 years in prison. The gun used in the murder was never recovered and there was no physical evidence linking Jnr to the killing.

His conviction was based on the testimony of a police informant, Bill Bruhn, and Arreola’s girlfriend, Ofelia Cortez (formerly Gonzalez), who was there when her partner was shot.

Many TV shows have uncovered horrific truths about the so called 'evidence' in this case, yet Jnr still remains incarcerated.

This is his story, as told by him.

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In life there are people that do incredible things then there's Jim La Trache. Childhood and adolescent years were difficult for Jim. Due to challenging personal circumstances, Jim struggled with school from an early age and ended up in foster care. Having never properly learnt to read or write and being unsupported at such a critical time in his life, Jim felt he didn't suit education, and that education didn't suit him. Jim would go on to join the French Foreign Legion, become a cocaine dealer and do two stretches in prison, until he would turn his life around and be invited to go undercover for a documentary where he would infiltrate one of the worlds most brutal dictatorships, North Korea. This is the story of Mr. James

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The Mole: Undercover in North Korea

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