What Next TBD: Contraband Tech Behind Bars

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🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It’s hard to put a number on it but judging from the number of videos emerging online, there are more and more contraband cell phones finding their way into the hands of people in prison, who use them to record TikTok dances, take online courses, and alert the outside world to what’s happening on the inside. Guest: Keri Blakinger, criminal justice reporter at the Los Angeles Times, author of Corrections in Ink. Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:30.4	Just a heads up, there's some swearing in this episode.
0:33.7	Okay, here's the show.
0:46.9	Okay. Okay, here's the show. This TikTok says it's from inside an Alabama prison.
0:50.6	It's a little hard to hear, but there's a filthy cell with what looks like mold and either dirt or feces all over the wall.
0:58.4	Go in or get sprayed with mace, and they're going to drag me out.
1:04.4	The user goes by at Ares Harris-Harris 81, and this video is just one of many that you can find on social media shot inside
1:13.3	prisons on contraband cell phones.
1:15.9	Saying y'all, report this.
1:19.8	This video is hashtagged with Department of Justice. And when he says report this, I'm guessing
1:25.5	the user means report it to the DOJ.
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