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Death, Sex & Money

Becoming a Father in Prison: Updated

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We met Lawrence Bartley inside Sing Sing prison in 2014. Now, almost three years later, he's up for parole for the first time in his 27 years behind bars.  Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for audio picks, letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Follow the show on Twitter @deathsexmoney and Facebook at facebook.com/deathsexmoney. Email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, Death Sex and Money Listeners. This week we are re-releasing our episode with Lawrence Bartley.

0:06.0

I first met him almost three years ago, inside Sing Sing Prison in New York.

0:11.0

Lawrence has been behind bars for 27 years and next month he'll be up for parole for the first time.

0:17.0

So we thought we'd share his story again and give you some updates too, so listen all the way to the end.

0:23.4

Here's our episode with Lawrence, which first came out in December 2014.

0:29.8

One thing I would say about prison is that prison is a very, very tough place to live.

0:37.0

This is it

0:45.0

the show from WNC about the things we think about a lot

0:48.0

I'm really not comfortable talking about

0:51.0

S-E-X and need to talk about more. S-E-X.

0:53.0

And need to talk about more.

0:54.6

Money isn't real, George.

0:56.2

I'm an sale.

0:57.0

A sale. Sing-Singh correctional facility is a whole. Sing Sing

1:03.0

Correctional Facility is a hulking maximum security prison along the Hudson River in

1:08.7

Ossining, New York.

1:10.9

It's been here in some form since 1825.

1:15.0

1825.

1:18.0

Historical market at its entrance says the big house and up the river were both coined here.

1:25.0

Lauren Bartley lives here.

1:27.0

He grew up in Queens.

1:28.0

He was arrested on December 27th, 1990

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