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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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[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 331 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

That is not a good choice of words to describe an attractive person's time in jail, lmao. I think they meant "everyone wanted to meet a folk hero and tell the tale, including the guards."

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 102 points 10 months ago

Frfr, I was worried there for a sec lol

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that was some whiplash

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

They knew.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean, I wouldn’t mind being his cell mate.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But what if he radicalizes you?!

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He’d have to really shove it down my throat for that to happen.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Come now, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy to be a pain in the ass.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 1 points 10 months ago

I’m tight.

[–] ProtecyaTec@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

uWu

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

The whole quote is "Everyone wanted a piece of the biggest crime story in the nation." The headline choice was absolutely intentional.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 17 points 10 months ago

The problem with your title is that you call Luigi a "Folk hero".

You are not allowed to do that on the news.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Thanks for saving a click. I only read that as murder.

[–] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

If you expect, or even hope that news will aim to spread truth...

Well, hell. We've got the wrong decade (century?) for that.