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Frozen and Abused in the Gulag
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
12 Mar 2019
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Prisoners at Brooklyn, New York’s infamous Metropolitan Detention Center endured days with “no heat, no food, no water” during a power failure last month. A federal inmate with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee who calls himself John Brown 912penned an essay on prisoner abuse during the breakdown. “You don’t reform oppression,” he wrote, “you abolish it.” 

Mass Black Incarceration

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