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Criminal

The Prison Newspaper

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A little over sixty years ago, there were 250 prison newspapers being published on a regular basis. Today, there are 26. We visit Nash Correctional Institution in North Carolina to meet Phillip Vance Smith, II, the editor of The Nash News. Learn more about the American Prison Newspapers digitization project here. Listen to more of Fresh Air’s interview with Angolite editor Wilbert Rideau here. Special thanks to Terry Gross and Fresh Air, which is produced at NPR member station WHYY and distributed by NPR. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, and members-only merch. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and gave me this little magazine.

0:36.7

I said, what is that?

0:37.7

He said, this is the Nash News.

0:39.4

The Nash News is a newspaper, written edited and produced by the men incarcerated at Nash

0:44.9

Correctional Institution in Nashville, North Carolina. Tell me what it looked like and

0:50.5

what you remember thinking as you were kind of looking through it.

0:54.0

I was amazed that people in prison could produce such a thing.

0:57.8

It wasn't a newsletter, it just printed on paper, it wasn't photocopied, it had real pictures, it was glossy, and it had weight to it.

1:06.1

And I wondered, you know, who allowed somebody to do this?

1:10.5

This is Philip Vance Smith II.

1:13.0

He's been incarcerated for 22 years, serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

1:19.0

He was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting a man in 2001.

1:25.1

Nash Correctional is a medium security prison with two manufacturing plants, one that makes

1:31.1

eyeglasses for incarcerated men and women, Medicaid patients, and state employees, and a print plant.

1:38.0

The print plant is, I think, the 10th largest in the nation is also I think the second largest on the

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