LA has the largest jail system in the country.

You got people that have been in jail just like one time in their life can't get nothing because of whatever mistake they made.

I stole some ground turkey because I wanted to feed my family we was hungry.

Off the block stories tracing the path from city block to cell block and back.

Available September 13th at KCRW.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is a program of true stories and personal documentaries and today on the program

Live, die, kill, Los Angeles.

And I'll say right up front that this episode has some very blunt discussions about

death and dying and you may want to keep that in mind if you're listening

with children say or anyone who might be sensitive to that sort of thing.

Plus as you might hear in my voice, I have a cold.

So, Karen Michelle is a long time public radio producer.

And when she came to Los Angeles for a visit,

one place that was definitely on her itinerary

was the Museum of Death.

Next to a nightclub slash titty bar across from reused car lot, claustrophobic, and smelly as befits a place of putrefaction.

That's Karen.

The Museum of Death keeps things like artifacts from the Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide.

We don't believe that our Father's Kingdom has much need for these flesh bodies.

Music performed by Charles Manson.

People say I'm no good.

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