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Hi everybody, Chuck here.

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, Selection.

Every week, as you know, we pick out curated episodes that were some of our favorites.

And this week, I'm going to go with Prisons, Colin.

Not as fun as you think.

This is from August 12, 2010.

And quite frankly, this could have been probably a two-part episode.

We may follow up at some point, but it's a really good, honest look at Prisons in the United States

and just sort of the state of things.

And it was very eye-opening for me and Josh, I remember.

And it's got a good title to boot courtesy of Mr. Josh Clark.

So here we go with Prisons, Colin.

Not as fun as you think.

Hey and welcome to The Podcast.

I'm Josh Clark with me as always, as Charles W. Chuck Bryant, as if you're surprised.

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