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4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A bucolic garden, six kinds of breakfast cereal, and around-the-clock bedside vigil: How one California prison is trying to mitigate the fears and unknowns of dying inside prison.

Thanks to Joseph Bick, Michele DiTomas, Terrance Harris, Allan Hickman, Gerard Hite, Jerry Judson, Keith Knauf, Alan Krenitsky, Kenneth Langill, Jeff Maria, Earl Miller, Michael Powell, and Frederick Roberts for speaking to us for this episode.

This episode was scored with music by Rhashiyd Zinnamon, Fernando Arruda, Antwan Williams, and Earlonne Woods.

Big thanks to Acting Warden Smith and Lt. Berry at San Quentin State Prison, and Acting Warden Hill and Lt. Newborg at the California Institution for Women for their support of the show.

We’re also grateful to Acting Warden Cueva and Lt. Gonzalez at the California Medical Facility for allowing our team to record inside the hospice.

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0:00.0	I'm Dahlia Lithwick and I'm host of Amicus, Slate's Podcast about the law and the US Supreme
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0:38.0	This is Sam Lewis Executive Director of A.R.C. the Anti-R.C. the Anti-R.C. Anti-R.C.
0:41.0	Contains language and content that might not be suitable for all
0:43.8	listeners discretion is advised. I noticed this what we were talking to someone and I tried not to get distracted by it so there's a like a medical table and then on the wall over the table are
1:18.2	Six dispensers with cereal in them. So there's cornflakes, rice, crispies, branflakes, apple whirls, honeynuts, and fruit whirls.
1:23.6	Do you work here, right?
1:25.1	Yeah.
1:26.1	What's up with the cereal here?
1:29.1	Well, you know, we try to be a five-star area back here, you know know not like the rest of the areas it's nice it's also
1:35.8	colorful I I fill it up every morning I don't I don't like it when it's not full it just
1:40.4	looks better when it's nice and full.
1:42.5	Which one do you think is the most popular?
1:44.3	Actually the apple jacks, the apple jacks and the cheerios,
1:48.6	honey nut cheerios.
1:50.0	It's kind of sweet, but it's kind of healthy.
1:53.0	So you get a little bit of both worlds there.
1:56.0	Yeah.
1:58.0	These guys, they don't like what comes on their tray or they just certain things they just they don't want it
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