The following recording is just who is a political prisoner,

jailhouse journalist, and the main subject of the interview,

discussing the lockdown put in place by the Federal Bureau of Prisons

and the reaction of prisoners to the murder of George Floyd and the historic

uprisings that occurred in its wake.

I saw it related to the state's response to the protests and uprisings more generally.

You know, so it was collective punishment.

The same way that the curfews were collective punishment.

The same way that you know, the tear gas outside and the attack and the

protests and the cedlin and the mass arrests.

The same way that was collective punishment.

This recent lockdown was all connected to that, you know, because we're all part of that.

So we're all part of that movement.

I'm in a prison in Jessup, Georgia, which is Southern Georgia.

Okay.

This is a couple of towns down from where a mod artery went for a job for the last time.

This is right outside that, you know, and after the uprising started, you know,

the punishments of the people who were starting to shift as well.

It was as if the uprising gave the people here a lot of energy

and a lot of hope, you know.

We were locked down, you know, we're locked out from the majority of the day.

And for that period, for that short period of time, you know, we were, you know, we were

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