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Press and the Prison w/ Jessica Phoenix Sylvia (11/10/22)

Death Panel

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Prison and Carceral Punishment

This is about a kind of collective experience within the walls of the institution where you have essentially the prison administrators are using their expertise. For instance, I've seen where someone who say is Samoan and their family does not actually read or write English sends in a letter in Samoan. Well, guess what happens? This person cannot get their letter from their family. That means they cannot monitor the letter and be sure that it's acceptable. And another thing that I've seen is in this exhaustion loop and I'll just call it an exhaustion loop. Basically, the folks who are making these decisions generally are from rural, sort of Trump country places. They really don't understand the content of a

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