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

submitted 11 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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[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I ended up in Brooklyn Central booking 20 years ago in a 3 piece suit, 1 white guy out of 800 guys, after some proactive violence early to survive, I made friends with everyone over the next few days. My takeaway after hours and hours of conversations with young black men from the hood was that if stones ever get thrown, it's not overeducated middle class white guys, its gonna be the streets. These kids never heard of rage against the machine but knew every conspiracy theory (JFK, lizard people) and actual wart on US history (contras, crack).

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Seems like common sense that the people with the least to loose, have the most to gain.