Prison Breakdown

Manipulation (Pt. 3)

Prison Breakdown

Show Notes

Professors Beck Strah and Eric Bronson discuss The Super Bowl, manipulation awareness, inmate manipulation strategies, the us vs. them mentality, the rumor mill, manipulator blackmail, gaslighting, and Night of the Comet (1984).

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