Sick

Indiana made the drastic decision to privatize health care in its prisons. It was supposed to improve care, but more than 20 years later, it’s unclear if it worked. 

S2 E5: Not Sentenced For That

Correctional officers are supposed to keep people in prison safe. But they can be the worst thing that happens to women inside.

S2 E4: Zero Tolerance

This week, we explore the system’s effort to keep people inside from killing themselves: suicide watch. 

S2 E3: Helpless

How do you get justice when something has gone wrong behind bars? 

S2 E2: A Righteous Case

We start Season 2 with the story of 19-year-old Princola Shields. What went wrong with her care at the Indiana Women’s Prison? Pretty much everything.

S2 E1: Screaming in the Shower


      <p>Sick is an investigative podcast about what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy. Sick's first season explores the complications of fertility medicine, one Indiana doctor’s abuse of power and the generations of lives he affected.</p>

<p>Season 2, we turn our attention to prisons— places that have to keep people healthy, but are built to punish them. New episodes start Oct. 26.</p>
    

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