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Cell Phones Pull Back Curtain on Prison Conditions
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
03 Sep 2018
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Prison officials across the country are apoplectic over inmate access to cell phones, partly because “it allows people that are incarcerated to serve as reporters, to broadcast firsthand what they are experiencing behind bars,” said Nazgol Ghandnoosh, senior analyst for The Sentencing Project, in Washington. Prisons officials also worry about losing pay phone revenues, and are embarrassed that guards are the main source of contraband cell phones.

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