Incarceration in the United States
Subject in Society & Culture
Incarceration in the United States has come up in 3 episodes across 3 podcasts in TMT, including Next Question with Katie Couric, The Dylan Gemelli Podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. 3 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Malcolm GladwellAuthor of Outliers, whose theory about Chinese numerals Jiang disputes
Gladwell argues that swift and certain punishment deters crime more than severe sentences.
“many criminologists will agree with me that swiftness and certainty are much better deterrence than severity of punishment”
Next Question with Katie Couric: Malcolm Gladwell on America’s Gun Crisis (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 45:47
Gladwell proposes funding both police and community resources by diverting money from prisons rather than cutting police budgets.
“I think you take all of that money that's over there being devoted to prisons and start diverting it to both those things”
Next Question with Katie Couric: Malcolm Gladwell on America’s Gun Crisis (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 32:56
Dylan GemelliPodcast host with a sales and entrepreneurial background
Gemelli says that in Iowa a prison sentence is immediately cut in half upon entry, and that he served two years of a 15-year sentence.
“So in Iowa, when you get a sentence, it gets cut in half the second you walk in the door”
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast: BONUS #169: What 11 Years in Prison Taught Us About God And Money: Behind the scenes conversation with Kevin Trudeau (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 20:59
Taylor SheridanAmerican screenwriter and producer, creator of Tulsa King
Sheridan argues U.S. prisons are not designed to rehabilitate and instead produce criminals, citing a recidivism rate he puts around 80 percent.
“It's an institution that guarantees you're a criminal when you come out”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:38:11
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- Next Question with Katie Couric · 1 episode
- The Dylan Gemelli Podcast · 1 episode
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
Malcolm Gladwell on America’s Gun CrisisNext Question with Katie Couric · Oct 7, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Katie Couric talks with Malcolm Gladwell about his book The American Way of Killing, covering under-policing, prisons, the Second Amendment, assault weapons bans and gun suicide.
BONUS #169: What 11 Years in Prison Taught Us About God And Money: Behind the scenes conversation with Kevin TrudeauThe Dylan Gemelli Podcast · Oct 3, 2026 · 47 min
Dylan Gemelli and Kevin Trudeau discuss prison, accountability, wealth mindset, credentials, the medical system, and why the self-help promise that you can have anything is false.
#2517 - Taylor SheridanThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 23, 2026 · 2 h 50 min
Joe Rogan and Taylor Sheridan discuss ranching, his TV production methods, politics, COVID, fraud, ibogaine, espionage, and his new prison survival guide.