Author: Shahid Bolsen

Of course the powerful will always mobilize their resources to consolidate their power, including the media to confuse and mislead the public. The public relations industry became the largest industry in the US precisely because democratic mechanisms legally exist there, and power needed a way to circumvent that by controlling public opinion. But, just because…

The telephone access in prison varied over the years. When I first entered, we had 15 minutes every month. You could apply for special permission, and get phone access twice a month or perhaps even every week. Informants could often get permission for daily phone calls. Prisoners would be taken in groups of around 10…