Harriet Krzykowski Talks to Eyal Press About Abuse in Prisons
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 2 May 2016
⏱️ 17 minutes
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A former prison counsellor discusses the abuse and torture of mentally ill inmates that took place inside the Florida correctional institution where she worked—and the emotional price she paid for staying silent about it.
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| 0:50.5 | On today's Politics and More podcast, IL Press talks to Press talks to Harriet Krzkowski, a former mental |
| 0:56.5 | health counselor at the Dade Correctional Institution in Florida. Chris Kowski says that during |
| 1:01.7 | her time at the prison, she witnessed violence perpetrated by both the inmates and the guards. |
| 1:09.3 | We love stories about whistleblowers. |
| 1:11.6 | Nobody seems more heroic than a courageous loner who stands up to a corrupt government or a corporation that puts people at risk. |
| 1:19.6 | But whistleblowers often pay with their careers, and sometimes they risk their own safety for the greater good. But pick up the newspaper any day of the week and you see the obvious. |
| 1:30.3 | Terrible things happen in institutions of all kinds, |
| 1:34.3 | and they're open secrets, and people don't blow any whistles. |
| 1:38.3 | A few months ago, news from the Miami Herald caught the eye of contributor AL Press. |
| 1:43.3 | The stories were about the death of an inmate at the Miami-D caught the eye of contributor A.L. Press. The stories were about |
| 1:45.2 | the death of an inmate at the Miami-Dade Correctional Institution and accusations of brutality |
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