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'Everyone wanted a piece': Inmate describes being incarcerated with Luigi Mangione (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 10 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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Vaughn Wright — who's currently incarcerated in Pennsylvania — wrote in an op-ed published by the Prison Journalism Project Thursday that Luigi Mangione's temporary stay at State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, changed the way prisoners there can share their stories with media.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 122 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Although the "prison’s deputy superintendent threatened everyone in the unit," following the interview "with time in the hole if they yelled from their cell or blinked their lights for the media again," Wright emphasized, "Mangione’s notoriety likely softened the amount of oppression the guards here would usually dispense because they wanted something from him. They wanted stories to share with coworkers and friends and family. Everyone wanted a piece of the biggest crime story in the nation."

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago

Prisoners getting invested in something that isn't actively destructive to their environment or each other with their copious amounts of spare time? No, we must threaten them to stop and get back to the intentionally depressing daily grind. Can't have that.

Fuck that guy.