Penal Predicament (Ep.20)

An innocent man serves 25 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit—then casually admits to multiple crimes he did commit during his sentence. Now what? The crew attempts to untangle one of Chuck Klosterman’s darkest hypotheticals, in which guilt and innocence crash headlong into the jagged edges of prison culture, legal systems, and moral obligation. Along the way, we ask: Is the state responsible for crimes committed inside a cage it built? What does justice even look like when every option feels wrong? And how many caveats are too many caveats?