Movement Moves
The movement to restore the human rights of incarcerated people must evolve in order to combat constant dehumanization.
August 2023, Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced a new digital mail center that would further hinder those incarcerated in the state, by creating additional barriers for communications with loved ones on the outside.
This has already been done across corrections in multiple other states. Even in Michigan, mailroom staff screen each letter by opening and replacing its exterior envelope - discarding the mailer’s contact information - prior to delivering it to its intended recipient.
Our organization is building this project in response to what many refuse to see…
In Pennsylvania as well as in South Carolina, state prisoners are required to have all of their mail sent to a processing company where it's opened, screened, scanned and uploaded to read on a wifi disabled digital device without the recipient ever having access to the original hardcopy themselves.
These protocols have been established under the guise of maintaining security by seemingly eliminating the flow of “contraband”, but impacted people see the true purpose of mailing restrictions:
Reduce the strength of all outside connections as incarcerated people are further exploited within the prison industrial complex. . .
Now we’re redefining
the prison pipeline
by uplifting a new space called Prisonality, a publicly accessible channel that flows from the inside out.
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