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Prison Officials Encourage Recidivism
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
19 Nov 2018
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The nation’s best known political prisoner says prison officials don’t want to break the cycle of recidivism that sends former inmates back to confinement. As an example, Mumia Abu Jamalcites the plight of “Mike,” a young inmate at Pennsylvania’s Mahanoy prison who was denied a Pell grant because he already “knew too much.”

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