[00:01.020 --> 00:11.120]  So, uh, my partner, uh, Cooper Quinton, old school comrade, uh, hacking some shit back in the day, uh, is not able to make it this, uh, today, unfortunately, got to take care of the kids, but he's, we're going to play a quick video in the beginning.
[00:11.240 --> 00:12.360]  He did pre-record some stuff.
[00:12.360 --> 00:14.880]  He'd been on the front line stuff of carceral technology.
[00:15.080 --> 00:18.140]  So, uh, let's talk circumventing prison tech censorship.
[00:18.440 --> 00:19.160]  My name is Jeremy Hammond.
[00:19.360 --> 00:21.360]  Uh, man, it's been a long time.
[00:21.500 --> 00:23.740]  I've been thinking about, uh, sharing these things with you.
[00:23.960 --> 00:28.160]  Uh, I know there's a lot of folks behind bars who would very much want your assistance in these matters.
[00:28.540 --> 00:32.920]  Uh, and there's a lot of folks who are just just simply not coming home until we do something about this.
[00:33.400 --> 00:38.620]  So, um, consider it a very privilege and an honor to be here with 2600 to be able to share these things with y'all.
[00:38.760 --> 00:47.540]  So we're going to begin real quick though, with a, um, with Cooper's Cooper's little, uh, 10 minute, uh, talk and then good morning HOPE conference.
[00:48.780 --> 00:50.560]  I hope all your hangovers are going well.
[00:51.300 --> 00:55.120]  I'm Cooper Quinton, senior staff technologist at the electronic frontier foundation.
[00:56.020 --> 00:59.400]  Unfortunately, I couldn't be there in person this year due to extenuating circumstances.
[00:59.400 --> 01:02.260]  So I've had to prerecord my portion of this talk.
[01:02.560 --> 01:04.420]  Thanks, Jeremy, for holding it down in person.
[01:05.100 --> 01:09.360]  Today, I'm going to talk to you about carceral technology and the industry that supports it.
[01:10.500 --> 01:12.180]  Capitalism loves a captive consumer.
[01:12.420 --> 01:14.980]  And what consumer is more captive than a prisoner?
[01:15.700 --> 01:28.820]  The U.S. imprisons more of its population per capita than any other country in the world, with currently somewhere around 1.7 million people in prison and an additional estimated 3.7 million people on probation or parole.
[01:28.820 --> 01:38.840]  With over 5 million people under some form of carceral control, the chances are high that you or a loved one will end up under carceral control at some point in your life.
[01:39.720 --> 01:41.960]  Prison isn't just the domain of the government.
[01:42.160 --> 01:43.740]  It's big business as well.
[01:44.200 --> 01:55.980]  The prison industrial complex, which has flourished ever since the corrections corporation of America built the first private prison in the U.S. which perhaps appropriately was opened in 1984.
[01:56.820 --> 02:01.980]  But private prisons aren't the only way that corporations can make money in the prison industrial complex.
[02:02.460 --> 02:07.100]  Every person under carceral control and their family members can be a source of income.
[02:07.580 --> 02:12.320]  Just because you're in prison doesn't mean you can't help feed the insatiable maw of capitalism.
[02:13.380 --> 02:25.280]  Black liberation activist, Makiya Devich-Ciro coined the term e-carceration in 2015, which she defines as the blending of mass incarceration with the technologies of electronic surveillance and punishment.
[02:25.960 --> 02:37.260]  Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, warns us that a system of e-carceration may prove more dangerous and more difficult to challenge than the one we hope to leave behind.
[02:38.000 --> 02:48.640]  E-carceration represents a massive new business opportunity for the prison industrial complex, more opportunities for profit, and more people to extract those profits from.
[02:49.680 --> 02:56.260]  Two of the major players in the e-carceration world are Global Telllink, now known as Viapath, and Securus.
[02:56.640 --> 03:03.560]  These companies are working hard to monetize every aspect of incarceration, from the moment you get arrested until the day you get off parole.
[03:04.280 --> 03:16.420]  G-T-L and Securus both started out as the two largest companies operating pay fund service for prisoners, taking advantage of their captive consumers by charging them wildly expensive rates for the privilege of talking to their friends and family.
[03:17.020 --> 03:28.280]  This is made worse by prisoners' incredibly low wages, meaning that a 15-minute phone call could take anywhere from three hours of work in the best-case scenario to 117 hours of work to pay for in the most extreme case.
[03:28.280 --> 03:37.420]  In 2016, we called upon the FCC to cap the cost of digital communications within prisons to something that prisoners could reasonably afford.
[03:38.200 --> 03:42.760]  Unfortunately, at that time, the courts ruled that the FCC didn't have jurisdiction over this matter.
[03:43.320 --> 03:51.020]  Recently, courts have reversed course, and the FCC has been given a clear statutory authority to limit the cost of digital communications in prisons.
[03:51.240 --> 03:55.600]  So EFF has joined a coalition of groups urging FCC to do exactly that.
[03:56.440 --> 04:02.400]  We've also exposed patents as filed by Securus and G-T-L that revealed their future line of thinking.
[04:02.740 --> 04:10.900]  The companies have filed patents for technologies such as robotic prison guards, which might not be so bad given how abusive prison guards often are.
[04:11.580 --> 04:15.600]  VR and gaming services for prisoners, complete with microtransactions.
[04:15.600 --> 04:29.380]  And biometric surveillance, voice recognition for phone calls, to not only transcribe what people are saying, but also to identify the people on the call, and even to do emotion recognition on the parties to the call.
[04:30.860 --> 04:41.060]  Securus has even filed a patent for a way to surveil the e-commerce purchases of a prisoner's friends and family by capturing the phone numbers of everyone the prisoner talks to.
[04:41.060 --> 04:44.940]  And to use that information to access online shopping account data.
[04:45.880 --> 04:54.320]  After writing about this last patent, Securus reached out to us to inform us that the technology was not currently in development, and that they would be abandoning the patent.
[04:55.900 --> 05:04.140]  In 2021, San Mateo County banned anyone incarcerated in its jails from receiving any physical mail other than attorney communications.
[05:04.760 --> 05:14.100]  Under this new policy, the senders of mail must route their letters to Smart Communications, a private for-profit company, which scans and then destroys the physical copy.
[05:14.380 --> 05:21.140]  The digital copy is stored for a minimum of seven years, even when the intended recipient is released before that time.
[05:21.780 --> 05:29.340]  Incarcerated people are only able to access digital copies through a limited number of shared tablets and kiosks in public spaces within the jails.
[05:29.720 --> 05:39.520]  In addition to the contents of the mail, Smart Communications also collects a variety of other information not directly included in the mail, including details about the sender.
[05:39.860 --> 05:45.080]  And anyone that San Mateo County provides credentials to can access all of this information.
[05:45.800 --> 05:58.240]  Concerns about invasive surveillance have led many people to stop corresponding by mail altogether, even though countless studies have shown that letter writing produces recidivism and increases successful re-entries into society upon release.
[05:58.240 --> 06:17.460]  In March of 2023, EFF, along with the Knight First Amendment Institute and Social Justice Legal Foundation, filed a lawsuit against San Mateo County on behalf of incarcerated folks, their loved ones, and ABO Comics, a collective of artists supporting incarcerated members of the LGBTQ community.
[06:18.320 --> 06:26.900]  In our complaint, we argue that this policy violates provisions of the California Constitution that guarantee freedom of expression and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
[06:28.880 --> 06:31.060]  Ecarceration doesn't end when you get out of prison, though.
[06:31.760 --> 06:42.260]  Ankle bracelets and increasingly smartphone apps let the carceral state keep people under constant control for years at a very low cost, sometimes even charging the surveilled person for the privilege.
[06:42.260 --> 06:51.960]  In his book, Understanding Ecarceration, James Kilgore says, like a carceral grub hub, electronic monitoring had brought the prison to me.
[06:53.580 --> 06:56.220]  Currently, it's estimated that half a million adults in the U.S.
[06:56.260 --> 07:00.400]  are under some form of electronic monitoring, ten times more than there were in 2005.
[07:01.500 --> 07:04.320]  ICE makes up a significant portion of these cases.
[07:04.640 --> 07:12.060]  As of 2022, ICE had placed 360,000 adults who were accused of no crime on electronic monitoring.
[07:12.800 --> 07:21.440]  ICE, it seems, has decided to put all immigrants, even the ones following the rules, under the never wavering gaze of the panopticon.
[07:22.100 --> 07:25.620]  But it's not just these companies that profit from the prison industrial complex.
[07:26.360 --> 07:28.560]  Big tech companies have profited as well.
[07:28.560 --> 07:41.940]  Some companies directly profit from the prison industrial complex, such as Microsoft's nightmare version of Office 365, an inmate surveillance and risk assessment scoring solution, which is called Offender 360.
[07:42.880 --> 07:55.400]  Or Google's Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli military, which will provide cloud services to be used to power the all encompassing surveillance and apartheid of the Palestinian people.
[07:55.400 --> 08:12.560]  But without the fundamental building blocks of surveillance capitalism, such as cloud computing, smartphones, machine learning, location tracking, and facial recognition that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others have built, none of the carceral surveillance technologies that I've discussed here
[08:12.560 --> 08:13.260]  would be possible.
[08:14.340 --> 08:17.980]  Surveillance capitalism and incarceration are two sides of the same coin.
[08:18.200 --> 08:19.960]  And those coins are stacking up.
[08:20.580 --> 08:30.220]  If these companies are allowed to profit from mass incarceration and continue on the path they've laid out, we will all be quite literally captive consumers.
[08:31.980 --> 08:40.440]  My comrade Jeremy Hammond, who you're about to hear from, has a lot more firsthand experience with prison technology than I do, having spent eight years in prison.
[08:40.860 --> 08:51.080]  His experiences while in prison, with exploitive, extractive services such as J-Pay prison email and others, are a big part of what inspired me to do this work.
[08:51.080 --> 08:57.480]  And he has some ideas about how we can all fight this horrible industry from outside and from within.
[08:58.560 --> 08:59.500]  Thank you for your time.
[09:01.240 --> 09:02.100]  Take it away, Jeremy.
[09:04.100 --> 09:05.240]  All right, y'all those coops, man.
[09:05.440 --> 09:10.640]  Shout out to the EFF also for, you know, taking a prison carceral tech seriously on censorship.
[09:11.280 --> 09:12.320]  Y'all doing some good work.
[09:12.440 --> 09:13.740]  I did a hell of a lot more than eight years though, damn.
[09:13.880 --> 09:18.600]  I did two federal prison bids for hacking and a couple of other dozen arrests for protests along the way.
[09:18.600 --> 09:21.500]  So I've, I've been to like dozens of jails and prisons across the country.
[09:21.760 --> 09:25.320]  Uh, and so it really means a lot to be able to share this experience with y'all.
[09:25.920 --> 09:27.740]  Um, also shout out 2600.
[09:28.140 --> 09:29.560]  Also shout out Lucy Parsons lab.
[09:30.460 --> 09:31.040]  Oh shit, hold on.
[09:31.180 --> 09:32.780]  Oh, now the subtitles want to show up.
[09:33.820 --> 09:34.300]  All right.
[09:35.600 --> 09:39.280]  So, uh, I don't know if y'all see this, but this is, uh, in, in Palestine.
[09:39.540 --> 09:40.600]  That's them breaking to the fence.
[09:41.140 --> 09:43.220]  Um, all right, let's get this going.
[09:46.400 --> 09:46.920]  All right.
[09:47.080 --> 09:49.340]  So just a real quick frameworks here.
[09:49.340 --> 09:57.460]  Uh, the way we interpret this is that we see that power expresses, uh, itself through criminality, economics, and intersections of oppression.
[09:57.720 --> 10:03.460]  Uh, and by criminality, I mean, they choose who and who can't, uh, have access to the same rights and privileges.
[10:03.780 --> 10:09.720]  Uh, and specifically that they, um, use algorithms recursively to reinforce systemic biases and equalities.
[10:10.000 --> 10:16.140]  And they experiment on marginalized populations, such as prisoners, such as immigrants, and such as what's happening in Palestine right now.
[10:16.140 --> 10:25.100]  And so we often see, uh, these technologies being used first on like marginalized populations that it is easy for like mainstream to be able to condemn.
[10:25.320 --> 10:29.560]  And so they, uh, you know, such things like privacy and transparency is usually superseded.
[10:29.980 --> 10:38.500]  Um, and, and immigrants specifically, uh, there's been such a rise in electronic monitoring, especially in the past year, which is more than five fold increase.
[10:38.820 --> 10:41.900]  Uh, anyone crossing the border, they're tagging homeland security and stuff like that.
[10:41.940 --> 10:42.540]  So it's a big boom.
[10:42.680 --> 10:43.380]  It's a big boom right now.
[10:43.840 --> 10:52.980]  Um, and of course in Palestine, when they're using some of the most sinister, uh, military tech, uh, artificial intelligence tech, this, um, it's, it's out of this world.
[10:52.980 --> 11:01.760]  And so it is, I'm so happy that, uh, um, Library Freedom Project and, uh, DDoS seekers did give a shout out cause I was the first I had heard anyone say anything about free Palestine this week.
[11:01.840 --> 11:03.280]  And actually before I say this is a hacker conference, right?
[11:03.340 --> 11:04.380]  Can I, can I get a free Palestine?
[11:05.040 --> 11:05.600]  Free Palestine.
[11:05.800 --> 11:05.900]  All right.
[11:06.380 --> 11:06.660]  That's right.
[11:06.720 --> 11:06.880]  That's right.
[11:06.940 --> 11:08.140]  Can I get a fuck the police all the way?
[11:08.420 --> 11:09.080]  Fuck the police, right?
[11:10.260 --> 11:10.600]  All right.
[11:10.700 --> 11:11.600]  So this technology, right?
[11:11.700 --> 11:14.500]  The problem is that once it exists, it really can't be reformed.
[11:14.560 --> 11:19.560]  Like once these contracts are, it's in, like it's, they're really hard to legislate your way out of the situation.
[11:20.060 --> 11:23.060]  And furthermore, like knowing about it is my opinion, not enough.
[11:23.180 --> 11:24.440]  Like exposing it is not enough.
[11:24.740 --> 11:29.760]  Like, uh, and just looking out about other revelations from Snowdin and, uh, WikiLeaks and so forth.
[11:29.840 --> 11:29.940]  Right?
[11:30.000 --> 11:31.400]  So now it's just kind of accepted as a given.
[11:31.500 --> 11:32.640]  We all know that they're spying us.
[11:32.740 --> 11:35.940]  We all know that they're algorithmically like keeping us down to the bottom of the pyramid.
[11:36.460 --> 11:40.380]  So, uh, like for me, I kind of think, uh, exposing is not enough.
[11:40.460 --> 11:41.320]  It needs to be destroyed.
[11:41.360 --> 11:41.640]  You know what I mean?
[11:41.660 --> 11:44.120]  Like when you're hacking that stuff, you're on the shell and you got the mail spools.
[11:44.300 --> 11:44.500]  That's cool.
[11:44.580 --> 11:45.280]  You got the database dumps.
[11:45.280 --> 11:45.540]  That's cool.
[11:45.640 --> 11:46.100]  Dump that shit.
[11:46.220 --> 11:46.260]  Right.
[11:46.320 --> 11:53.320]  But, uh, anyways, as the contradictions in the crisis escalates, this is a hell of a timeline that we're in right now.
[11:53.500 --> 12:01.940]  Uh, we see that government is just eliminating social services, healthcare, education, and so forth, and is just doubling down on these cop cities and mega prisons, these projects.
[12:02.100 --> 12:04.580]  And that's a map on the top right of various projects.
[12:04.580 --> 12:11.180]  We all know about cop city in Atlanta, which is also another one of the breeding grounds of the latest in police tech, but, uh, they're actually doing this in your town.
[12:11.260 --> 12:11.500]  You know what I mean?
[12:11.540 --> 12:15.080]  They're building new prisons and Illinois is about to build a billion dollar prison.
[12:15.500 --> 12:20.200]  Um, but fortunately the Fulton County, uh, prison, the 2 billion project may have been scuttled.
[12:20.200 --> 12:21.120]  A lot of fun about the today.
[12:21.240 --> 12:21.760]  So there's some good news.
[12:22.480 --> 12:22.900]  All right.
[12:23.040 --> 12:28.340]  So this is the couple of weeks ago, they actually held a correctional, uh, technology association.
[12:28.620 --> 12:30.580]  This is over, this is actually last year's conference, right?
[12:30.620 --> 12:43.620]  I know y'all having a good time in a party and stuff like that, but there's actually like a criminal conspiracy cabal of these, uh, revolving door wardens and sheriffs and so forth, uh, are in and out of the private industry and they reward each other with lucrative contracts.
[12:43.720 --> 12:46.080]  You could actually go to the site and you can look at who's speaking and it's the who's who.
[12:46.080 --> 12:52.180]  So who's who it's all, like I said, wardens and DOCs under secretaries and stuff now working in the private industries.
[12:52.200 --> 12:53.600]  Like, Hey, we can make big money on this stuff.
[12:53.700 --> 12:53.760]  Right.
[12:55.420 --> 12:59.920]  So as, uh, as a Cooper had said, like private, private prisons is a big business.
[13:00.220 --> 13:06.180]  Um, and this is on the left is a map of how, I guess maybe if y'all familiar with the history, the phone companies were hackers and freakers.
[13:06.360 --> 13:06.420]  Right.
[13:06.420 --> 13:13.980]  This is how like, uh, to private prison giants have kind of consolidated power through the, you know, the usual capitalistic strong arm tactics and so forth.
[13:14.100 --> 13:17.420]  So we have GTL and Securis are the main phone providers and so forth.
[13:17.800 --> 13:21.840]  Um, if you want to take a look though, on the bottom, right, that data.forthworth rises there.
[13:21.980 --> 13:27.640]  Uh, that's a worth rises a pretty awesome group that does do quite a bit of a research specifically on private prison industry.
[13:27.700 --> 13:33.000]  So you can look and see who's like, um, receiving benefits from prison labor, who's got these lucrative contracts.
[13:33.320 --> 13:41.320]  And in the top right is a picture of a prison farm laborers in Angola state penitentiary in Louisiana, uh, which is a former slave plantation built by slaves.
[13:41.440 --> 13:42.720]  Uh, it still exists today.
[13:42.920 --> 13:46.120]  Uh, and it still needs to be shut down immediately.
[13:46.340 --> 13:48.600]  I mean, when we say abolish, like there's a direct continuation.
[13:48.860 --> 13:50.100]  We're, we're, we're trying to abolish prisons here.
[13:50.660 --> 14:01.940]  So these parasitic private prison prosecutors, you know, the, uh, the, one of the main features here is that they're actually diversifying like the, their portfolio of products offered to provide basically all platforms inside and outside of prison.
[14:02.180 --> 14:04.040]  Uh, and so they have these exclusive contracts.
[14:04.180 --> 14:04.960]  It's quite cutthroat actually.
[14:04.980 --> 14:06.700]  It's really funny to see them sue each other sometimes.
[14:07.260 --> 14:14.940]  Uh, but you know, some of the main problems that we have with the private companies that have these relationships with the prison industry in the state is that they're often unaccountable to regulators or transparency laws.
[14:14.980 --> 14:15.860]  You can't really FOIA them.
[14:16.260 --> 14:23.300]  Um, and they, um, there's only a couple of ways to get any information about them, but they're also involved in like campaign donations.
[14:23.320 --> 14:29.740]  Like, like we said, like they support individual sheriffs running for election with like lucrative, like campaign donations and stuff like that.
[14:29.860 --> 14:30.760]  And then they lobby Congress.
[14:30.980 --> 14:35.680]  Every time a bill comes around sentencing contracts or reform prison reforms and stuff, I get there against it, go figure.
[14:36.100 --> 14:43.340]  Uh, but I will say the private prisons is about only about like 8% of the total population of those incarcerated in the United States, some 2 million.
[14:43.580 --> 14:45.840]  Uh, there's like 158 prisons, like some about a hundred thousand.
[14:46.300 --> 14:49.720]  Uh, famously there's some back and forth with Trump, uh, and Obama.
[14:49.860 --> 14:52.420]  Obama was superficially talking about ending private prisons.
[14:52.500 --> 14:54.600]  Of course that was not the case for immigrant detention centers.
[14:54.600 --> 15:02.480]  Again, this is the type of thing where they choose to, uh, unload, unleash the worst technologies and the worst like systems onto marginalized populations.
[15:02.480 --> 15:05.100]  So they, they still run a majority of the immigrant detention centers.
[15:05.260 --> 15:07.660]  Um, but then of course they're a huge campaign contributors to Trump.
[15:07.800 --> 15:09.220]  And then the business is booming again for you.
[15:09.240 --> 15:10.920]  So it remains to be seen what the future is.
[15:11.380 --> 15:24.700]  Um, but, uh, the, besides private prisons themselves, uh, the main, the main, uh, beef is the contractors and which, in which they basically outsource the majority of every service, uh, like food service.
[15:24.720 --> 15:28.520]  For example, I was working for Aramark, like for a dollar a day, uh, you know, 12 hour shifts making, you know, food for like, you know, 500 people.
[15:28.820 --> 15:33.980]  And, uh, you know, it's funny cause Aramark is owned by like another company, which also provides commissary products.
[15:34.260 --> 15:40.480]  Uh, so it's like the lower, uh, the less food quality that they serve, the less calories and stuff like that, the more money that they're going to make at the commissary.
[15:40.600 --> 15:40.700]  Right.
[15:50.880 --> 15:51.360]  Technology stuff.
[15:51.520 --> 16:00.700]  I remember when I hacked the international association of police chiefs and stuff like that, uh, like many years ago and stuff, uh, they had a conference and they, and I was just looking at some of the stuff they had like the Homeland security guy over there and, but they had like the craziest stuff.
[16:02.040 --> 16:07.600]  They had like police segues with like electro shop stuff, some Robocop stuff, but that was like 10, 12 years ago.
[16:07.680 --> 16:09.700]  And that's the only stuff that they're willing to share with the public.
[16:10.220 --> 16:13.500]  And then anyways, uh, the monitoring outsource prison labor to private companies.
[16:13.640 --> 16:15.360]  Again, check out that, um, Fort worth link.
[16:15.700 --> 16:24.300]  But if you see geo and core civic, those are the two major private prison companies, core civic, formerly correctional corporation of America was at one of those dumps geo.
[16:24.340 --> 16:26.360]  They also do like ankle bracelets.
[16:26.520 --> 16:30.540]  And that G four S is a, their former associations are like an international private security.
[16:30.680 --> 16:37.300]  They do everything from like checkpoints in Palestine to private security for like billionaires and private prisons all throughout the world.
[16:37.440 --> 16:40.840]  Actually uniquely positioned to live full continuum of carer solutions.
[16:40.840 --> 16:44.340]  They provide like drug treatment therapy and everything like last people in the world.
[16:45.000 --> 16:46.360]  I'm just going to cut to the chase here.
[16:46.600 --> 16:49.540]  Um, like the biggest band of books is behind bars.
[16:49.540 --> 16:50.180]  Right.
[16:50.280 --> 16:55.800]  I mean, so anyone who's hackers interested in like freedom of speech or transparency or the right to read or all that stuff like that.
[16:55.980 --> 16:57.400]  Well, like get ready.
[16:57.460 --> 17:06.900]  Cause this is coming to, you know, and it's interesting to see that this is really kind of, it's always been a problem censorship, but it is actually definitely in the past two or three years, there's been an insane escalation.
[17:06.900 --> 17:16.840]  Very much mirrors what we're seeing, uh, these fascist attacks on libraries, uh, and, and content creators and authors, uh, you know, targeting LGBTQ creators and stuff like that at these libraries.
[17:16.860 --> 17:18.820]  And it's just the rise of fascism generally.
[17:18.960 --> 17:19.060]  Right.
[17:19.060 --> 17:29.520]  Um, but the main crux of the matter again, is just the same tired played out war on drugs rhetoric, where they say that people could theoretically like soak books and drugs and so forth.
[17:29.520 --> 17:31.340]  So therefore we have to ban books period, right?
[17:31.720 --> 17:33.520]  Some, some free crime minority report stuff.
[17:33.780 --> 17:41.340]  Um, and so really this is a way that they could, uh, exert political censorship over what one can or can't read.
[17:41.560 --> 17:46.400]  Um, but to do it in such a content neutral way, there'll be stuff like, oh, we don't accept hardcovers.
[17:46.640 --> 17:48.980]  Um, uh, and there's what we've seen.
[17:49.200 --> 17:51.740]  Since I've been out in prison, I do a lot of like prisoner support and solidarity.
[17:51.880 --> 17:54.380]  Like, so, you know, when I got out, it was one of the lucky ones to get out.
[17:54.500 --> 17:57.860]  Uh, and I, I know the value of a book and I know the value of mail.
[17:58.000 --> 17:58.360]  Right.
[17:58.360 --> 18:01.400]  And I got, and I gotta say, I want to shout out to y'all who ever written me and stuff like that.
[18:01.460 --> 18:02.900]  And I know they put out cards and stuff like that at home.
[18:03.000 --> 18:05.680]  I can't tell you how much that meant to me, especially in solitary confinement.
[18:05.680 --> 18:11.000]  So those lonely cells staring at walls and fucking, and I was one of the only ones who actually got like mail call and stuff again.
[18:11.040 --> 18:16.200]  And so I just feel so bad about the folks who are just kind of ignored and, and denied by society and, and, and buried.
[18:16.540 --> 18:21.420]  Uh, and so that's when I got out, I was one of the lucky ones to get out and I would never ever forget what I've seen and experienced.
[18:21.880 --> 18:24.900]  And again, I know a lot of folks who are never ever going to get out unless you do something about it.
[18:24.980 --> 18:26.960]  So since I've been out and that's mainly what I've been doing.
[18:26.960 --> 18:31.940]  And so I've been having to deal with all these thousands and thousands and thousands of frivolous rejections and so forth.
[18:33.280 --> 18:37.160]  And so there's no... I'm just going to read a couple of them in a second when I pull this as a computer.
[18:41.180 --> 18:44.240]  The type of rejections, you know, there's usually stuff like hardcover books.
[18:45.520 --> 18:47.220]  But let me just read a couple of these things.
[18:47.600 --> 18:52.720]  Single-sided pages, the quantity of pages, oftentimes, now you can't only write in pen ink.
[18:52.880 --> 18:53.760]  There's no colors of crayons.
[18:54.000 --> 18:56.240]  You can't get a birthday card from your kids anymore.
[18:58.260 --> 19:01.120]  National Geographic, the evolution chart banned, nudity, right?
[19:01.220 --> 19:02.400]  Rolling Stone magazine banned.
[19:02.680 --> 19:03.440]  I've gotten all these.
[19:03.520 --> 19:04.320]  I've seen thousands of them.
[19:04.580 --> 19:07.280]  Black Panthers or anything civil rights related to security threat group.
[19:07.620 --> 19:14.020]  Basically, anything that endangers the safety and security of the institution, which they will never have to justify it later in court.
[19:14.180 --> 19:15.140]  They have qualified immunity.
[19:15.620 --> 19:18.200]  The grievance process and the courts is basically a garbage can.
[19:18.300 --> 19:19.440]  And I fought them all the way.
[19:19.600 --> 19:20.720]  I was a prolific filer.
[19:20.880 --> 19:24.500]  I worked in the law library for many years helping folks fight cases and file grievances and stuff like that.
[19:24.940 --> 19:31.220]  But important to do is, you know, when you have nothing, and one of the last things you can do is just create, at the very least, create headaches for them.
[19:31.320 --> 19:34.900]  But I'll talk about some of the prolific jailhouse lawyers that have won many rights in the future.
[19:34.980 --> 19:37.380]  But another thing is prisoner-to-prisoner communication, right?
[19:37.500 --> 19:42.780]  And that got me thinking about the theory of the fields that they're talking about, like, in Palestine.
[19:42.780 --> 19:46.340]  And they're talking about, like, this is kind of a decentralized, like, movement type stuff.
[19:46.340 --> 19:52.840]  But if one folk, you know what I'm saying, on one part of the prison doesn't even, can't even speak to another person on the other side of the prison, they don't understand the conditions.
[19:52.960 --> 19:54.980]  They can't, like, share their tactics and so forth.
[19:55.000 --> 19:55.900]  And we can't organize, right?
[19:56.160 --> 19:58.100]  So, and that's precisely what they're trying to ban.
[19:58.160 --> 20:00.900]  And that's one of the reasons why we're trying to amplify these suppressed voices.
[20:00.900 --> 20:07.540]  And so people inside cannot only share the truth about what's happening behind bars, but they could also talk to each other.
[20:08.480 --> 20:10.800]  But anyways, authorized monopolies only.
[20:10.800 --> 20:24.140]  So, currently, like, 84% of the state prison systems have these rules now that happened mostly in the past couple years where they restrict incoming books to a single monopolistic vendor, such as Amazon or Christian Books or Everett R. Hamilton Catalog, which is one of the worst garbage.
[20:26.020 --> 20:28.900]  All they got is, like, Civil War and UFO stuff like that, right?
[20:29.180 --> 20:37.140]  And so, like, groups like ours, Books to Prisoners, or any other independent publishers and stuff like that, for some reason, are no longer, they're not authorized, they're not bona fide.
[20:37.360 --> 20:39.520]  That kind of just breaks down what the problem is.
[20:39.520 --> 20:40.320]  Who is a publisher?
[20:40.520 --> 20:42.800]  And who says that you aren't a publisher, right?
[20:43.380 --> 20:48.240]  And all of this is just the same tired, like, restrictions, which actually isn't solving anything.
[20:48.320 --> 20:51.760]  What we're trying to say is, like, we need actual treatment and therapy and so forth.
[20:51.860 --> 20:52.260]  Like, books, right?
[20:52.280 --> 20:54.180]  Like, you take a book away, what do you think people are going to do in their cells?
[20:54.260 --> 20:57.060]  And that's Baby Yoda laying out his position on the matter.
[20:59.100 --> 21:02.620]  Other stuff, then you can't even get trades and skills books, electrical wiring, coding.
[21:02.960 --> 21:03.680]  This is going to burn you, right?
[21:03.740 --> 21:05.780]  But they consider this as a form of encryption, right?
[21:05.860 --> 21:08.480]  Probably because, let's be clear, pigs can't read anyways, right?
[21:08.480 --> 21:11.020]  But, like, you can't even get books on coding.
[21:11.260 --> 21:14.120]  So folks who are trying to, like, educate and better themselves and stuff like that.
[21:14.660 --> 21:15.580]  Also, a little petty stuff.
[21:15.660 --> 21:18.260]  Like, you can't even use, like, return mail labels and stuff like that.
[21:18.260 --> 21:19.680]  You might be hiding something underneath it.
[21:20.800 --> 21:21.680]  Foreign language, you guys.
[21:21.760 --> 21:28.020]  A lot of state prisons and county jails and stuff like that require that anything must be written in English, which is, like, obviously some racist bullshit.
[21:28.200 --> 21:30.400]  Like, what else to say about it?
[21:30.420 --> 21:31.020]  That's just got to stop.
[21:31.340 --> 21:34.780]  So I was also getting, like, computer printouts mailed to me, and they were denying that, too.
[21:35.000 --> 21:37.360]  They're talking about copyright and all this ridiculous stuff.
[21:37.540 --> 21:38.680]  So I appealed that all the way.
[21:38.940 --> 21:42.920]  Legal work, I was not even able to get, like, the sentencing transcripts of the guy who told on me and stuff like that.
[21:43.080 --> 21:44.220]  Like, kind of shit is that.
[21:44.980 --> 21:47.300]  Anyways, yeah, there's just mountains and mountains of restrictions.
[21:47.380 --> 21:50.260]  We got just thousands and thousands and thousands of these all the day, every day.
[21:50.320 --> 21:52.620]  And so we fight and we continue to send stuff in.
[21:52.760 --> 21:57.000]  But it's kind of a reason why I want to share with y'all, because if you care about this stuff, man, there's a lot of work to do.
[21:58.500 --> 22:00.220]  There are a few things in the ways I've been censored.
[22:00.420 --> 22:02.920]  Like, oh, so this is a video of me at, like, Grady County Jail.
[22:02.980 --> 22:06.720]  This is actually near the end of my bid, after I was already supposed to have been released a long time ago, blah, blah.
[22:07.240 --> 22:09.800]  During COVID, they just kept us in one of these funky-ass county jails.
[22:09.840 --> 22:17.100]  Of course, they've taken physical visits in most of these places in replacing them with, like, these digital, extremely costly, extremely glitchy systems.
[22:17.740 --> 22:27.320]  So, like, I was there during the George Floyd Rebellion, and, you know, we were all in, like, this small-ass room about the size of the stage, 30 people, like, triple-stacked bunks, just deep, just saying, man, this is some bullshit.
[22:27.520 --> 22:28.240]  This is some bullshit.
[22:28.320 --> 22:31.680]  We just find on the news, someone just died, like, a dorm over from COVID and stuff like that.
[22:31.760 --> 22:32.960]  It's like, we got to do something about this, right?
[22:33.020 --> 22:35.260]  So we did have a little protest and stuff on video.
[22:35.920 --> 22:38.580]  They actually did try to take my video from that.
[22:38.900 --> 22:39.580]  Imagine that, right?
[22:40.240 --> 22:50.560]  The top left, this is an email that I had written to my comrade that it was a letter in support of Barrett Brown, who was about to be sentenced, you know, more or less, kind of my Cody during the Stratford Anonymous days.
[22:50.760 --> 22:54.980]  I wanted to write a letter to the judge to show that I support him, that the case was bullshit, blah, blah, blah, right?
[22:54.980 --> 23:04.320]  So not only did they, like, take my email for, like, 60 days and stuff like that, but, yeah, this is actually me getting the same email back in a FOIA request, like, 10 years later.
[23:04.440 --> 23:06.760]  And you see how, like, this is my own words were butchered for me.
[23:06.860 --> 23:09.820]  Like, on the right is just a mountain of rejections.
[23:10.040 --> 23:12.640]  Like, they only give you, like, this much space, so you got to, like, write the stuff really small.
[23:12.800 --> 23:13.940]  It's like case law.
[23:14.040 --> 23:15.040]  So we do what we got to do.
[23:16.000 --> 23:18.560]  I want to give a shout-out to some of the real hackers behind bars.
[23:18.660 --> 23:24.660]  These are some jailhouse lawyers who have really fought and put their body in the line and put that pen to paper and made some real changes.
[23:24.800 --> 23:29.760]  Mumia Abu-Jamal, of course, you know, wanted the right for people to be able to publish books behind bars.
[23:30.640 --> 23:38.100]  Martin Sostry, as well, prolific jailhouse lawyer, and Lorenzo Kumbai-Irvin, still active on this anti-censorship tip, have really paved the way.
[23:38.120 --> 23:39.920]  So I really suggest you all check those folks out.
[23:41.140 --> 23:45.300]  So we, you know, we did a lot of surveys with folks behind bars on how they experienced censorship.
[23:45.740 --> 23:47.560]  These are just some of the responses we've gotten.
[23:48.200 --> 23:51.620]  And it's stuff like, in this particular case, someone's trying to write a book, right?
[23:51.680 --> 23:54.060]  But they won't let him make copies, and he's got his own copy and stuff like that.
[23:54.140 --> 23:56.700]  And then they just, in this particular case, someone's fighting his legal work.
[23:56.780 --> 23:58.140]  They just come and just take everything.
[23:59.000 --> 24:01.560]  One person's talking about some of the tablets, GTL.
[24:01.780 --> 24:03.120]  They have, like, these reading materials.
[24:03.260 --> 24:05.660]  They're saying, oh, you get access to, like, digital libraries and stuff like that.
[24:05.740 --> 24:06.240]  But guess what?
[24:06.320 --> 24:08.380]  It's, like, texts that are, like, the copyrights expired.
[24:08.540 --> 24:09.480]  It's 80-years-old books.
[24:09.540 --> 24:10.480]  So people are just reading this stuff.
[24:17.560 --> 24:18.640]  Where we're from, man, is ridiculous.
[24:18.820 --> 24:20.060]  They don't have a library.
[24:20.420 --> 24:21.880]  They just don't have a library, right?
[24:22.060 --> 24:22.620]  Like, period.
[24:22.860 --> 24:23.840]  They have a law library.
[24:23.940 --> 24:28.260]  So this is where you sit often for years at a time in, like, one of the worst jails in the country, right?
[24:28.540 --> 24:30.120]  Someone just died there, like, a week ago.
[24:31.020 --> 24:37.420]  Where if you're trying to fight your case, well, you could, like, write a cop-out or write a kite to the law library, and, like, a couple weeks later, you'll get, like, five pages.
[24:37.520 --> 24:38.680]  Can you send me some information about it?
[24:38.700 --> 24:40.020]  Yeah, that's not a law library, right?
[24:40.220 --> 24:40.700]  So I don't know.
[24:40.960 --> 24:42.140]  It's actually by design, of course.
[24:42.260 --> 24:44.120]  Jails are meant to, like...
[24:45.160 --> 24:45.940]  Anyways, blah, blah, blah.
[24:45.940 --> 24:46.840]  You can read about this later.
[24:47.140 --> 24:52.940]  So this is kind of the crux of what I want to talk to you about today is this mail scanning service.
[24:53.120 --> 25:01.260]  So this is something that is, like, kind of a new industry in the past couple years where, basically, you no longer receive physical mail anymore in many places.
[25:01.260 --> 25:08.760]  Like, something like half the state systems, but there's several thousand county jails, and each of them are kind of, like, slowly adopting this, making money, and, you know, all this stuff.
[25:09.840 --> 25:11.800]  Smart Communications is one of the big ones.
[25:11.920 --> 25:15.440]  They actually tried to copyright their, taking their mail elimination service.
[25:15.940 --> 25:25.940]  It's called Mail Guard, where they, like, instead of, like, sending the letter directly to the prison of your loved one, you actually have to send it to this company in Florida where they scan it, digitize it, and butcher it, of course, right?
[25:26.060 --> 25:32.760]  And it's all fed into, like, algorithmic, like, contraband and investigative services that last forever, right?
[25:32.860 --> 25:44.400]  And so then they, like, send it back to the prison where they either make a cheap copy or they make you read it on a tablet that you only have access to, like, a few hours a day, or that it could be taken from you for punishment or even group punishment.
[25:45.520 --> 25:52.520]  And, of course, what ended up happening was that, despite all this, like, Pennsylvania was one of the first prison systems to try this mail scanning service.
[25:52.540 --> 25:56.480]  And, of course, it has not absolutely stopped the proliferation, the availability of drugs.
[25:56.900 --> 25:58.020]  So it didn't do anything anyways.
[25:58.120 --> 26:00.480]  But it did prevent people from being able to read for a while.
[26:00.600 --> 26:01.280]  What's that about?
[26:01.600 --> 26:09.140]  And then I threw a couple other slides at the bottom because, you know, you all hear about the fentanyl cops freaking out and faking these overdoses and stuff like that.
[26:09.220 --> 26:13.740]  Well, they're certainly using this as a pretext to ban books and mail in prisons.
[26:13.900 --> 26:14.440]  It happens.
[26:14.560 --> 26:15.040]  It's like a formula.
[26:15.160 --> 26:17.420]  I think this is actually what they're talking about at these conventions and stuff.
[26:17.540 --> 26:19.000]  They're saying, okay, here's the plan.
[26:19.180 --> 26:20.180]  You're going to go to the media.
[26:20.280 --> 26:24.440]  You're going to be like, I had a fake overdose by handling prisoner mail even though they're supposed to wear latex gloves and stuff like that.
[26:24.500 --> 26:29.860]  And, of course, every single time all these medical toxicologists and stuff like that come out and say, say, it is literally impossible.
[26:30.420 --> 26:36.300]  You cannot, like, get an accidental overdose by simply handling physical mail that may or may not have been soaked in fentanyl, right?
[26:36.300 --> 26:38.440]  But it does not stop these pigs from trying this stuff.
[26:38.560 --> 26:41.320]  They go and they put these articles, there should not be a price tag on my life.
[26:41.420 --> 26:43.400]  And, oh, a cop went to the hospital and stuff like that.
[26:43.460 --> 26:44.780]  It's like, we need this mail guard service.
[26:44.900 --> 26:46.960]  We need to pay millions of dollars to take away people's right to read.
[26:47.720 --> 26:48.800]  And look at this corny ass stuff.
[26:48.900 --> 26:50.420]  They're, like, scanning the inside of the books and stuff.
[26:51.420 --> 26:51.940]  This guy.
[26:52.480 --> 26:52.940]  This guy.
[26:52.960 --> 26:54.380]  He's the CEO of Smart Communications, right?
[26:54.880 --> 26:55.860]  He's the one who tried to patent it.
[26:55.940 --> 26:57.980]  He even sued other private prison companies and stuff like that.
[26:58.620 --> 26:59.820]  He's also kind of a clown.
[27:00.040 --> 27:01.220]  This is his Instagram pic.
[27:01.320 --> 27:02.260]  He's, like, flaunting his money.
[27:02.420 --> 27:04.500]  He got half a million PPP loans and all that stuff.
[27:05.280 --> 27:08.400]  This is actually his patent for the Electronic Digital Mail Center.
[27:09.720 --> 27:11.040]  And so tablets, right?
[27:11.160 --> 27:13.600]  Of course, you know, it sounds good, right?
[27:13.680 --> 27:15.240]  People should have access to technology.
[27:15.660 --> 27:20.180]  But the reality is it is fully enshittified, like something straight out of a Cory Doctorow novel.
[27:20.320 --> 27:20.560]  You know what I mean?
[27:20.620 --> 27:23.060]  Like, I've never actually been to a place that had tablets.
[27:23.160 --> 27:25.400]  I've been to the Bureau of Prisons where they have these little MP3 players.
[27:25.520 --> 27:36.500]  But it is kind of similar where, like, it's like you could pay $1.50 to, like, basically browse the Walmart section of, like, music, it's censored, and it's like they put new songs every third Tuesday of the month.
[27:36.580 --> 27:38.000]  We're always sitting there refreshing and stuff like that.
[27:38.180 --> 27:41.800]  But, yeah, so it's microtransactions, like Cooper said.
[27:42.220 --> 27:48.160]  And, you know, the sad thing is, like, it's they think that they're adding something to, oh, they'll learn about technology, they'll have access to more knowledge and stuff like that.
[27:48.220 --> 27:51.140]  But in actuality, it's a scam to not only profit, obviously, right?
[27:51.520 --> 27:55.680]  But they replace physical visits with these video visits, right?
[27:55.940 --> 28:00.080]  So, and that's another one of those kickback schemes where it's like, you know, physical visits are often free.
[28:00.080 --> 28:03.160]  And, of course, contact visits is one of the most important things you could ever have.
[28:03.260 --> 28:06.720]  Like, you often aren't even just talking to a friend or a loved one, but you're actually hugging them.
[28:06.760 --> 28:13.120]  And I can't emphasize how much that physical connection actually means, especially someone who's just sitting in a goddamn box for 24 hours a day is everything.
[28:13.120 --> 28:19.060]  And then you have to review life mediated through a little screen that doesn't even work that charges your loved ones all this money.
[28:19.180 --> 28:22.420]  And it's something that's just kept forever so these companies can analyze your every emotion.
[28:22.600 --> 28:24.180]  And they track all these biometrics and everything.
[28:24.640 --> 28:26.060]  Then, of course, there's physical mail debating that.
[28:26.200 --> 28:32.500]  They're replacing physical libraries with these books, replacing law libraries with these books that supposedly have access to court records and stuff like that.
[28:32.760 --> 28:34.400]  Mass surveillance, these text emails.
[28:36.360 --> 28:36.880]  And then...
[28:36.880 --> 28:39.940]  Damn, I had a whole thing about these restrictions, but I'll tell you more about it later.
[28:41.400 --> 28:43.060]  These are just a couple of the different providers.
[28:44.640 --> 28:53.320]  Kifi is the commissary provider as well as they're the ones who make the MP3 players and the tablets as well as the...
[28:53.320 --> 28:54.940]  That's Advanced Technologies Group.
[28:55.080 --> 29:01.580]  They also do the Core Links email system that's used by the Bureau of Prisons and a lot of other state systems and a lot of CCA joints have it as well.
[29:02.200 --> 29:04.440]  It's a glorifying email...
[29:04.440 --> 29:04.940]  It's not email.
[29:05.080 --> 29:05.840]  It's like a texting service.
[29:05.980 --> 29:07.680]  No text formatting.
[29:07.960 --> 29:08.400]  No pictures.
[29:08.640 --> 29:08.920]  No...
[29:08.920 --> 29:10.400]  It's 140 characters type stuff.
[29:10.540 --> 29:11.620]  Five cents a minute to use.
[29:13.340 --> 29:15.160]  Securus, J-Pay, they're owned by the same one.
[29:15.160 --> 29:15.700]  They have a bunch of them.
[29:15.800 --> 29:16.380]  Smart Communications.
[29:16.680 --> 29:16.880]  They have...
[29:16.880 --> 29:18.100]  It's just a griff, man.
[29:18.160 --> 29:22.100]  There's actually hundreds of companies all doing the same thing, trying to out-compete each other for these contracts.
[29:22.240 --> 29:23.880]  And these county jails are more than willing to acquiesce.
[29:24.280 --> 29:25.380]  Y'all remember this story right here?
[29:26.220 --> 29:27.140]  This laptop, right?
[29:27.140 --> 29:31.700]  So, you know, once in a while, you'll have a prison that does have some, like, novel program.
[29:31.700 --> 29:37.800]  Like, in Washington State, they had, like, these touchbooks or these secure books produced by Justice Technology that are clear and secure and so forth, right?
[29:38.080 --> 29:39.060]  Someone actually found it.
[29:39.120 --> 29:40.380]  This is circulated maybe a month or two ago.
[29:40.460 --> 29:46.320]  Someone found one on eBay and was able to, like, solder a USB thing to it and then install, like, Ubuntu or something.
[29:46.920 --> 29:48.560]  And so, you know, they posted about it.
[29:48.640 --> 29:56.740]  But then what ended up happening was the prison, of course, overreacted and then actually took, like, something like over 1,500 of these notebooks and canceled the class and so forth like that.
[29:57.160 --> 29:58.380]  And so that's why we keep it private.
[29:58.560 --> 30:01.980]  And so that's why today I'm actually not going to be talking a whole lot about actual circumvention.
[30:02.140 --> 30:06.120]  Like, if I actually had some tricks that would be like, so this is how you send an email and they won't read it.
[30:06.160 --> 30:08.140]  Like, I'm not going to actually come here to help and talk about it, right?
[30:08.300 --> 30:10.420]  But I will tell you about how to bend the bars, though, right?
[30:10.500 --> 30:11.860]  But, you know, hey, we're a zero day.
[30:11.940 --> 30:12.120]  You know what I mean?
[30:12.160 --> 30:13.180]  You keep that shit private, right?
[30:13.240 --> 30:13.940]  We're black ass.
[30:15.200 --> 30:17.060]  So these phone systems, I want to talk a little bit about that.
[30:17.640 --> 30:21.920]  Yeah, so all communications go through these monitored, monetized, monopolies, kickback schemes.
[30:21.920 --> 30:28.740]  FCC Cooper alluded to some of the struggles over pay caps and so forth that has been just a back and forth, you know, price gouging and so forth.
[30:28.780 --> 30:29.760]  And some places actually do...
[30:29.760 --> 30:31.760]  People actually did fight to get free phone calls and stuff.
[30:32.080 --> 30:34.680]  But anyways, a lot of companies are now are...
[30:35.660 --> 30:44.260]  You'll never believe it, but they're feeding all your conversations through Amazon to transcribe and feed it through artificial intelligence to profile prisoners and to...
[30:44.260 --> 30:50.620]  Well, they're also using it to, like, counter their own civil rights lawsuits and stuff like that because they'd be like, oh, well, these are bad conditions.
[30:50.680 --> 30:53.300]  Then they'll pull up like a phone call and be like, well, this person says it's actually...
[30:53.300 --> 30:55.380]  He's actually enjoying himself in this prison and just...
[30:55.380 --> 30:59.200]  They do it for a lot of other stuff too, but I can't even completely understand.
[30:59.320 --> 31:07.840]  But they're also spying on the people in the free world, especially if you use some of these apps like the GTL Getting Out app or the Connect Network app or JPay's app and stuff like that.
[31:07.920 --> 31:13.940]  Not only do biometrics and location data on, you know, yourself inside prison, but your free world contests.
[31:14.040 --> 31:19.900]  If you're on that app, that stuff's spyware and they're tracking your locations and so forth and your metrics.
[31:20.660 --> 31:25.620]  And of course, no phones, no smartphones, no Internet access, period, right?
[31:26.140 --> 31:27.700]  And I want to show some of the...
[31:27.700 --> 31:28.380]  There's a prison talk.
[31:28.600 --> 31:29.300]  It's actually...
[31:29.300 --> 31:32.220]  People want to participate in the conversation.
[31:32.380 --> 31:33.300]  People want to...
[31:33.300 --> 31:38.920]  And so there are a lot of folks behind bars who do have contraband phones and they use it to show the truth about what's happening behind bars.
[31:39.040 --> 31:43.260]  Everything from the crappy prison food or their own recipes and stuff like that.
[31:43.540 --> 31:47.500]  Or even just participate in cultural stuff or TikTok trends and dances and stuff like that.
[31:47.640 --> 31:50.680]  So people want to participate in this stuff, but this stuff is criminalized and denied.
[31:51.660 --> 31:52.960]  And specifically, we're talking about censorship.
[31:53.280 --> 32:06.040]  During the COVID pandemic, there was a few folks like at FCI Mile in Elkton who had actually used contraband cell phones to talk about how bad they're doing this, how they're completely unable and unequipped and really don't even care about that people are sick and dying behind bars, right?
[32:06.400 --> 32:09.580]  And so people had used cell phones to show, oh, look, look, this is what they give us.
[32:09.980 --> 32:11.880]  And of course, everything else happened around that time.
[32:11.980 --> 32:13.280]  He's like, oh, the solution, lock them down.
[32:13.580 --> 32:14.920]  Give them only one hot meal a day.
[32:15.120 --> 32:17.500]  Close all educational programming, close the library, all that stuff.
[32:17.500 --> 32:23.540]  And then I could go on and all this stuff, but I just want to talk about how this folk posted these videos and stuff like that.
[32:23.580 --> 32:28.300]  And so not only did they take the phone and put them in the hole and transfer them and stuff like that, but they threatened them with additional charges.
[32:28.340 --> 32:29.000]  It's actually a charge.
[32:29.100 --> 32:31.840]  You could get a federal charge specifically for contraband behind bars.
[32:32.040 --> 32:32.960]  It's all selective punishment.
[32:33.060 --> 32:36.700]  Anything from a knife to a cell phone, you could get years if you're caught in prison.
[32:37.360 --> 32:38.680]  And so they did it in this case.
[32:38.780 --> 32:40.360]  They told this guy, you better go retract your statement.
[32:40.960 --> 32:41.900]  Otherwise, we're going to charge you.
[32:42.440 --> 32:43.080]  So it's crazy.
[32:44.380 --> 32:45.600]  Just skipping around a little bit.
[32:46.200 --> 32:49.580]  This is a service that Securus offers to prison guards.
[32:49.780 --> 32:56.380]  Like anyone has access to this and they retrieve data from these like location data brokers, like three, what is it?
[32:56.600 --> 32:57.700]  Yeah, location smart and so forth.
[32:57.840 --> 33:02.460]  We've heard about this in the past couple of years that these private vendors are getting this location data through various stuff.
[33:02.820 --> 33:05.840]  Um, but they're, uh, Securus is buying that stuff.
[33:05.940 --> 33:09.640]  So they are offering, uh, to their guards, a service where they could just simply, there it is right there.
[33:09.720 --> 33:15.540]  You could just put any phone number and there's like a little upload thing where you're supposed to upload like the warrant or the court order, right?
[33:15.660 --> 33:16.480]  It's just not validated.
[33:16.640 --> 33:16.720]  Right.
[33:16.940 --> 33:23.540]  And so there's two little piggies over here that I posted that had, they had used and abused the system to spy on their friends and loved ones or even a judge and stuff like that in the left case.
[33:23.760 --> 33:25.500]  And this guy on the right, yeah, he did that too.
[33:25.700 --> 33:26.140]  A couple of years later.
[33:26.240 --> 33:28.040]  So obviously the system wasn't changed or fixed or like that.
[33:28.160 --> 33:29.840]  They're still just not checking the upload.
[33:29.980 --> 33:31.780]  He just uploaded like a blank PDF and stuff like that.
[33:32.040 --> 33:35.380]  Later, this asshole went and murdered somebody in a cell extraction as well.
[33:36.480 --> 33:43.940]  I mean, so to combat the cell phone stuff, they are experimenting with a lot of anti-drone tech, which is kind of interesting.
[33:44.180 --> 33:52.560]  Uh, they have like stuff that claims to be able to, you know, land a drone or to send it back or to like find out where it's, uh, coming from and so forth.
[33:52.620 --> 33:54.720]  And of course it doesn't affect every drone vendor and stuff like that.
[33:54.840 --> 33:58.820]  So maybe some of y'all know ways to, uh, not comply with whatever standards that they're using.
[33:58.960 --> 34:00.360]  We're not going to get too much into technical stuff.
[34:00.860 --> 34:02.340]  Um, they also use a lot of cell disruptions.
[34:02.360 --> 34:02.720]  tools.
[34:03.060 --> 34:07.760]  Um, now specifically state prisons are not even allowed by law, uh, to do cell phone jamming.
[34:07.920 --> 34:11.800]  Um, because that's something that's regulated by the feds, but in some federal prisons, they do.
[34:11.940 --> 34:17.860]  Uh, but it's, it's, and they've experimented with different implementations of it that checks like the IMSA number, uh, and so forth.
[34:17.940 --> 34:25.800]  They have like white lists, or in some cases they just do like geo-fencing and then they go cooperate with like the cell providers to ban these certain numbers and so forth.
[34:25.920 --> 34:30.780]  So it's the kinds of struggle that's, uh, the little babies, those are, those are called babies are small enough as your thumb.
[34:30.780 --> 34:32.160]  Um, well hidden.
[34:32.380 --> 34:38.960]  Um, and then the other, they got all kinds of other drone stuff, everything from like the electric, uh, electronic warfare stuff to just simply guns and stuff.
[34:39.140 --> 34:41.080]  Oh, that's a video of me, uh, at Grady County jail.
[34:41.280 --> 34:44.400]  Uh, um, during the George Floyd stuff that I talked about earlier.
[34:45.580 --> 34:53.160]  And it was, uh, speaking of people's abilities to post content, whether it's on Tik Tok or whether, uh, so there's actually a lot of places just prevent you.
[34:53.240 --> 34:53.860]  Obviously you don't have a phone.
[34:53.880 --> 34:59.520]  You can't do it yourself, but you're not even allowed in most places to be able to have a comrade in the outside, be able to post on your behalf.
[34:59.520 --> 35:00.700]  Oh, it's like that in Texas.
[35:00.980 --> 35:01.820]  It's like that in a lot of other places.
[35:02.120 --> 35:08.460]  The BOP famously, uh, recently is proposing like a new charge that they could take good time and so forth.
[35:08.640 --> 35:13.580]  If like someone goes and posts something on your behalf, like I maintained a Twitter account for many years with my friends.
[35:14.000 --> 35:15.340]  Um, uh, thanks you for that.
[35:15.480 --> 35:18.240]  Uh, talking about prison conditions, doing comments on the world and so forth.
[35:18.360 --> 35:21.880]  Like, and there's actually a lot of prolific, uh, prison tweeters in the world, uh, that you check out.
[35:22.160 --> 35:24.500]  Um, but of course they're trying to ban all that, right?
[35:29.520 --> 35:31.900]  It's that bridge from the inside and outside that Cooper is talking about.
[35:32.020 --> 35:32.780]  They're trying to narrow it.
[35:32.960 --> 35:33.660]  They're trying to control it.
[35:33.740 --> 35:35.780]  They're trying to mediate it and commercialize and so forth.
[35:36.040 --> 35:43.180]  But mainly they just want to keep what's happening in there quiet, uh, and as well as keep what's happening in the world hidden from people on the inside too.
[35:43.300 --> 35:45.240]  So it's a complete total communication ban.
[35:45.400 --> 35:50.700]  And speaking of communication unit, that's the Bureau of Prisons has these special prisons that you only have like one letter a month.
[35:50.700 --> 35:58.320]  And they put like, it's, it's specifically mostly targeting like Muslim, uh, accused terrorists, but a lot of other green scare and other like sophisticated scammers.
[35:58.500 --> 36:01.720]  They put them in this special prison that they just completely limit their communication.
[36:02.280 --> 36:06.400]  Sam's is another technique that they could just put on someone where they just literally cannot talk to anybody ever.
[36:06.560 --> 36:08.120]  They just put them a cell for the entirety of their bed.
[36:08.380 --> 36:10.120]  There's a lot of people who are like that actually on Sam's status.
[36:11.820 --> 36:19.380]  And, uh, I guess this is kind of the crux of what we're talking about is they're constantly widening the net and testing these technologies out in prison.
[36:20.440 --> 36:22.680]  But, you know, they got a plan for all of us.
[36:22.800 --> 36:26.020]  I mean, uh, Cooper mentioned there's like about like 2 million people behind bars in this country.
[36:26.140 --> 36:29.040]  It's most in the world per capita and, um, just overall.
[36:29.580 --> 36:37.260]  But, uh, they also, the other form of control is anybody who have previously been convicted of a felony or someone who's on supervised release or someone who's pre-trial.
[36:37.660 --> 36:40.880]  Uh, they, uh, also are subject to many controls.
[36:41.020 --> 36:44.860]  And so a lot of the technologies that are trying in the world right now is very much like, um, integrated.
[36:45.660 --> 36:47.720]  It's just hard to commit crimes for kids these days.
[36:47.840 --> 36:48.540]  I feel bad for y'all.
[36:48.540 --> 37:02.720]  Like the artificial facial recognition integrations, like trap wire, like is a system that we actually kind of exposed to the strapper leaks that they were also like, um, hustling these like integrations where they're integrating like the CCTV networks into like a central system that does run like
[37:02.720 --> 37:04.540]  all algorithm, uh, threat detection and so forth.
[37:04.980 --> 37:09.640]  Clearview, another private company that was scraping Facebook pages and then associating with camera systems.
[37:09.800 --> 37:10.560]  It's commercial services.
[37:10.720 --> 37:11.940]  You get Ring and Nesters.
[37:12.100 --> 37:14.380]  Of course, we all know how they cooperate with the cops and stuff like that.
[37:14.760 --> 37:16.280]  Preach out parole, supervision, monitoring.
[37:16.640 --> 37:18.320]  Um, so yeah, when I got out of prison, right, of course.
[37:18.540 --> 37:20.140]  Uh, I was like, can I use a computer?
[37:20.240 --> 37:22.620]  So I got like, I was subject to a lot of restrictions.
[37:22.620 --> 37:24.580]  I was not allowed to use encryption period.
[37:25.060 --> 37:26.060]  I was, I know, right.
[37:26.240 --> 37:27.260]  SSL sites, it's everywhere.
[37:27.400 --> 37:27.480]  Right.
[37:27.620 --> 37:31.940]  But, uh, you know, unfortunately it didn't come to come to pass, but yeah, I was not allowed to use signal.
[37:31.940 --> 37:34.900]  So I, I actually had a tracking software on my computer.
[37:35.040 --> 37:38.320]  It was basically malware, uh, run by this company called remote com.
[37:38.500 --> 37:41.780]  And yeah, I had to pay them 30 bucks per device every month for them.
[37:41.920 --> 37:45.600]  And, uh, yeah, on my phone and everything, like I had to connect my phone to my computer every day.
[37:45.600 --> 37:47.260]  And it would copy all my messages and so forth.
[37:47.560 --> 37:51.300]  My PO would actually read my texts and actually want to try to talk to me about them and stuff like that.
[37:51.740 --> 37:53.260]  And it actually became an issue.
[37:53.380 --> 37:58.260]  Um, many times, like once, for example, me and my, my brother, we made a video game called smash MAGA.
[37:58.600 --> 38:00.220]  Um, it's an anti-fascist video game.
[38:00.320 --> 38:00.920]  You check it out.
[38:01.020 --> 38:02.180]  It's free on steam, not on the app store.
[38:02.300 --> 38:04.260]  We got kicked off, not on, um, um, Google play.
[38:04.380 --> 38:04.860]  We got kicked off.
[38:05.180 --> 38:09.460]  But, uh, anyways, my PO was senior watching me type, you know, all these messages about smash MAGA and stuff like that.
[38:09.540 --> 38:14.920]  He's like, okay, well, it turns out another one of special conditions releases that I'm not allowed to associate with civil disobedience organizations.
[38:14.920 --> 38:29.380]  And so they, she actually went to the judge and tried to clarify whether Antifa was considered a anti-fascist, uh, I'm sorry, civil disobedience organization, subject to me being violated my supervision conditions and whether me making this video game constitutes an affiliation with Antifa, whoever they are.
[38:30.460 --> 38:30.840]  I never heard of them.
[38:31.500 --> 38:36.300]  But, but, uh, yeah, remote comms, some malware, some shit, but they actually do this a lot for pre-trail folks as well.
[38:36.580 --> 38:40.260]  Um, and hey, maybe, uh, maybe the ISPs are using some of the same stuff.
[38:40.820 --> 38:41.960]  Automatic license plate readers.
[38:42.420 --> 38:42.940]  Yeah, some shit.
[38:43.060 --> 38:44.680]  Social meeting monitoring and predictive policing.
[38:44.680 --> 38:50.160]  So a lot of companies are now offering these type of services to police departments and, um, kind of black box stuff.
[38:50.160 --> 38:52.220]  And you get bits and pieces of it comes out.
[38:52.340 --> 38:54.760]  Like, uh, I saw a really good one the other day here, actually.
[38:54.980 --> 38:56.000]  I saw some FOIAs that were interesting.
[38:56.660 --> 38:59.220]  Shot spotter and gun, uh, gunshot detection systems.
[38:59.220 --> 39:02.980]  I'm going to talk about that in the next slide, but that's another carceral, uh, system.
[39:03.220 --> 39:05.580]  The gang terrorist security threat group databases.
[39:05.840 --> 39:10.660]  A lot of city police systems have these, like the terrorist list or the gang database and so forth.
[39:10.780 --> 39:14.600]  And the criteria in which they place people on, um, is, is kind of a mystery.
[39:14.680 --> 39:18.760]  And you often find out after the fact until you've been pulled over or after you, you're in front of the judge.
[39:19.140 --> 39:24.980]  Maybe, oh, it turns out that that one time that you was someone else, you were stopped by someone, that person was, and then now you're on a gang list or whatever.
[39:24.980 --> 39:26.200]  You live in a certain block or whatever.
[39:26.280 --> 39:27.020]  You're on this gang database.
[39:27.660 --> 39:29.220]  Data brokers view of fencing stingrays.
[39:29.380 --> 39:30.520]  We all, and we all know that stuff.
[39:30.680 --> 39:31.340]  Smart borders, though.
[39:31.460 --> 39:32.680]  This is kind of what I want to talk about.
[39:32.800 --> 39:45.060]  It's not just like the border between, uh, folks on the outside and inside of prison, but also they're using some, you know, Palantir and what's that other company that is experimenting and some, some cutting edge stuff to try to, to regulate who can and can't come.
[39:45.140 --> 39:49.580]  It's, it's all about the flow of people and the flow of information that they're trying to be on top of that.
[39:50.140 --> 39:50.520]  All right.
[39:50.600 --> 39:52.340]  So shot spider on the left.
[39:52.420 --> 40:00.740]  So this is a map of Chicago where you see those dots are locations of these gunshot acoustic devices, uh, that are obviously only on the South and West sides.
[40:00.980 --> 40:01.240]  Right.
[40:01.360 --> 40:02.760]  And it turns out there's like this in every city.
[40:02.860 --> 40:05.160]  This is like leaked to wired, I believe a couple months ago.
[40:05.400 --> 40:08.780]  Uh, and, uh, it's basically like this racial profiling, right?
[40:08.780 --> 40:11.620]  They put these gunshot detection systems in these areas.
[40:11.620 --> 40:11.840]  Right.
[40:12.120 --> 40:13.980]  And then it generates data about crime.
[40:14.020 --> 40:19.140]  And then suddenly now we need to justify putting more police there and then we need to, and then they're going to make more arrests.
[40:19.320 --> 40:21.860]  And so we're running out of time here.
[40:22.040 --> 40:23.080]  So I'm going to speed through this.
[40:23.140 --> 40:27.660]  And then on the right, we have the, um, uh, uh, gang databases and so forth.
[40:27.780 --> 40:32.800]  We talk about how they could, uh, be profiled and basically like this algorithm of racism and data racism.
[40:32.880 --> 40:37.340]  And if you want to look about that more, check out, uh, weapons of math, uh, mass, uh, math destruction, right?
[40:37.920 --> 40:45.980]  You have these automatic risk assessments, eligibility for bail, like early release, prison security level program eligibility, like whether you could get, and even in the real world, it's kind of the same thing as a social credit store.
[40:46.100 --> 40:51.300]  Like your ability to get housing, healthcare, jobs is, uh, and it just recursively perpetuates this racist system.
[40:51.760 --> 41:00.600]  Uh, Equifax is another asshole company, of course, credit scores, but not only that, but they have systems in place that like, if you do get locked up, you're on booze, Samson, they'll automatically know and it'll automatically cancel your benefits.
[41:00.880 --> 41:01.420]  It's like, really?
[41:02.580 --> 41:05.080]  Um, yeah, right-wing cop-outs on, on Twitter.
[41:05.280 --> 41:06.020]  Yeah, that's insane.
[41:06.180 --> 41:09.080]  Digi-dogs, police drones, and Israeli kill drones, right?
[41:09.140 --> 41:09.880]  This is, this is the future.
[41:10.000 --> 41:12.880]  They're already like using this, like in, in, in this genocide.
[41:13.500 --> 41:20.580]  And they're, and they're scraping data from like WhatsApp groups and, and metas, like somehow like reading out of the sandbox and, and conversations.
[41:20.580 --> 41:28.100]  And they know, like, they have like literally a score in Palestine, uh, in which the, uh, the IOF like determines like whether they're going to kill you or not.
[41:31.380 --> 41:35.740]  And, um, all right, uh, electronic monitoring.
[41:36.080 --> 41:47.960]  Um, so anyway, so if you look at this map at the top, uh, right, we see in the criminal system, but look at the past like year or two specifically, uh, it has like such a rise in the use of these ankle bracelets that track not only your location data,
[41:47.980 --> 41:51.920]  but a lot of them do have audio monitoring systems and they, and it's, it's interesting.
[41:52.060 --> 42:03.000]  It's often presented as an alternative to incarceration, but it really is an expansion of the net to those in the so-called free world or minimum security as my friend used to tell me, uh, they also use for like alcohol testing too.
[42:03.120 --> 42:13.540]  I once hacked Scram systems and I was reading like these emails and, and they had these automatic like messages when they leave the exclusion zone or when their blood test results go over, uh, a certain like percentage and so forth.
[42:13.620 --> 42:15.820]  And then they, they, and they're so faulty, they're so faulty.
[42:15.820 --> 42:19.600]  So how many people are on this technical violations to get just thrown back in jail?
[42:19.940 --> 42:22.500]  Someone in Cook County jail was murdered like three weeks ago by guards.
[42:22.660 --> 42:26.520]  Uh, and he was already on electronic monitoring, but there's a technical violation on this band.
[42:26.660 --> 42:29.460]  And then, um, they beat him up and gave him sedatives on the, and he was murdered.
[42:30.200 --> 42:35.240]  Uh, and specifically these ankle bracelets are being used to track asylum seekers crossing the border.
[42:35.780 --> 42:39.940]  Uh, so we're just, it's just a method of which the power like controls folks.
[42:40.500 --> 42:47.240]  And then, uh, this one company I want to talk about, uh, they are a major Atlanta police foundation supporter, a financier of the cop city project.
[42:47.480 --> 42:51.600]  Uh, they have contracts with, uh, many, many jails and prisons around the country.
[42:51.720 --> 42:57.920]  They tried to do the rice, uh, street, um, Fulton County jail location where they have these bands that you wear, uh, inside the jail.
[42:58.040 --> 43:04.880]  And it tracks like your proximity to other people and how much time you spend inside of the outside of your cell and your biometric data, your heart rate, they'll know when something's happening and so forth.
[43:04.980 --> 43:09.460]  And this is just kept forever, but they're also using this for so-called repeat offenders in the world.
[43:09.640 --> 43:16.680]  There's, there's like something like 900, I think out there in Fulton County that are wearing these same bands by the same company that they use inside of these prisons.
[43:16.900 --> 43:17.200]  Right.
[43:17.340 --> 43:21.400]  And they have this Teletricks score determined like your likelihood of recidivism or whether you're doing stuff.
[43:21.700 --> 43:24.660]  95% of the people who are on that, uh, um, are black.
[43:25.180 --> 43:27.260]  Um, so it's, it's just some racist shit like cop city.
[43:27.380 --> 43:31.260]  Uh, and they're integrating the same swatch system into this fuses AI camera network.
[43:31.360 --> 43:33.940]  They have a really sophisticated camera system out there for real time tracking.
[43:34.080 --> 43:38.780]  That's the asshole right there talking about, uh, safer, more just technology and ethics.
[43:38.780 --> 43:39.680]  All that stuff.
[43:39.880 --> 43:44.040]  Like, so I'm just going to talk about some other ways that we could, uh, you know, fight back.
[43:44.180 --> 43:50.580]  So really it's all about building relationships with folks behind bars to listen to them, to, to support folks and to like amplify their voices.
[43:50.600 --> 43:52.060]  So we hear the truth of what's happening.
[43:52.200 --> 44:00.040]  So get out there and write some letters, you know, you got there and, and, and start reading some of these zines, publish some of these zines that people are, uh, I want to talk about this, this is pirate radio station.
[44:00.160 --> 44:01.040]  Someone was talking about this.
[44:01.220 --> 44:08.800]  Uh, they had this one thing in, um, Kentucky was called hip hop from the hilltop and they have like a radio show where people could call in from prison and their loved ones can call in as well and send a message to prison.
[44:08.980 --> 44:10.020]  They could request songs.
[44:10.300 --> 44:11.360]  So something like that could be cool.
[44:11.460 --> 44:12.520]  Go to community stations.
[44:12.680 --> 44:15.960]  If you're, if you got one and maybe start a program or, or build a pirate radio.
[44:16.100 --> 44:17.260]  And it's another idea.
[44:17.620 --> 44:28.520]  Uh, man, oh, you know, as much as I talk about abolition and militant direct action and stuff like that, a lot of the work I actually do find myself doing books of prisoners is legal challenges, publishing requests for comments, going to town halls and legislation,
[44:28.540 --> 44:33.020]  and really just filing appeals, calling the jail, calling the prison, these phones apps, right?
[44:33.020 --> 44:38.540]  So anytime we hear about stuff that's happening, and this is something that you could get plugged into right now, just look, just answer the call.
[44:38.860 --> 44:40.120]  Like people are out there asking for help.
[44:40.240 --> 44:40.960]  They're throwing the signals.
[44:41.200 --> 44:41.640]  You know what I mean?
[44:41.660 --> 44:51.780]  Like go out there and support these folks calling and harass these jails and harass these, these warrants and these, and these, these city officials who are responsible for this stuff and let them know that like, we are not going to let you just do this to these people and,
[44:51.780 --> 44:53.820]  and, and think that you're just going to get away with it in secret.
[44:53.960 --> 44:55.960]  Like we know what's happening and you're going to stop that shit.
[44:56.320 --> 45:02.580]  Uh, shout out to, uh, Michael Lee also for talking about, um, that meant that's one of the Greatest books and presentations.
[45:02.920 --> 45:07.300]  All this stuff is being dumped out there, these leaks of police systems and so forth, like blue leaks and stuff like that.
[45:07.340 --> 45:11.940]  We really need more people to go through and parse that data and find the truth and make stories on it.
[45:12.180 --> 45:14.420]  When I was hacking and stuff like that, I was dumping these databases to the Internet.
[45:14.520 --> 45:17.260]  But what we really need is, it's not just hackers.
[45:17.380 --> 45:18.120]  We need journalists.
[45:18.480 --> 45:19.100]  We need lawyers.
[45:19.400 --> 45:20.600]  We need people to go out there and fight.
[45:20.680 --> 45:21.900]  There's a lot of places for you to plug in.
[45:22.220 --> 45:24.340]  So check out Books to Prisoners, the Atticus Black Cross.
[45:24.520 --> 45:29.860]  Prison Ban Book Week is something that happens in September to bring attention to the book bans that we were talking about earlier.
[45:30.100 --> 45:30.980]  So get on with that.
[45:30.980 --> 45:38.400]  But to me, one of the main things is that when I was in prison, it really brought tears to my eyes every time I heard something about a cop guard being burned or, say, the U.S.
[45:38.440 --> 45:39.980]  Sentencing Commission website being hacked.
[45:40.120 --> 45:42.820]  Because we want to see that the movement continues fighting.
[45:43.620 --> 45:45.260]  We want to continue to be a part of it.
[45:45.500 --> 45:47.260]  And so solidarity means attack.
[45:47.640 --> 45:51.040]  It's one thing to support folks behind bars, but we have to finish the job.
[45:51.920 --> 45:53.740]  So I want to show a few examples of where this works.
[45:53.860 --> 45:58.620]  Letcher County Prison is a prison that they tried to build in Kentucky, but people actually did manage to stop that.
[45:58.700 --> 46:02.860]  TAMS is a supermax prison in Southern Illinois that people spent years fighting, and they did shut it down.
[46:03.320 --> 46:08.800]  Thompson Smoot was supposed to be the Bureau of Prison Special Management Unit, a 24-hour lockdown, two-year step-down program.
[46:09.040 --> 46:10.280]  It's one of the worst shits in the world, right?
[46:10.660 --> 46:12.320]  And that was just northwest of Chicago.
[46:12.320 --> 46:21.120]  And after, like, Marshall Project investigations and people on the inside fucking putting pen to paper and fucking getting the word out there, you know, was able to shut that shit down, too.
[46:21.420 --> 46:29.560]  Fulton County Jail was supposed to build, in Atlanta, a new $2 billion, like, prison project that, by all appears, the news today is over with.
[46:29.900 --> 46:34.680]  Other ways that people fought back, people fought in a few of these state systems to get free access to free phone calls and stuff like that.
[46:34.720 --> 46:35.340]  It's not that much money.
[46:35.460 --> 46:37.680]  They were able to legislatively get the city to finance this stuff.
[46:38.660 --> 46:42.000]  Other examples, New York State, like, attempted this censorship committee.
[46:42.000 --> 46:47.760]  If you're in prison, you want to contribute to work or whatever like that, you have to go through some central prison censorship committee.
[46:47.900 --> 46:50.480]  So once word got about that, people, like, made noise and got that.
[46:50.740 --> 46:55.760]  New York, Eric Adams tried to do a package ban in the Bronx jail and stuff like that because of the whole drug stuff like that.
[46:55.880 --> 46:56.900]  People fought back against that.
[46:56.980 --> 46:57.740]  There's a little picture on the bottom.
[46:57.900 --> 46:58.840]  You can fight and win.
[46:59.020 --> 47:01.820]  But this is a strike that's planned.
[47:02.160 --> 47:03.560]  That's jailhouse lawyers speak.
[47:03.700 --> 47:04.400]  You can check them out.
[47:04.400 --> 47:08.600]  But that's an account run by folks inside with contraband phones, and they're organizing.
[47:08.760 --> 47:13.100]  And they are planning for a prison strike, and they're trying to get word into all the jails and prisons.
[47:13.600 --> 47:20.320]  And people really need people's help on the outside to be able to transfer information from prison to prison, you know what I mean, about this strike.
[47:21.040 --> 47:22.820]  So December 6th through the 13th.
[47:23.180 --> 47:25.160]  And that's the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee.
[47:25.240 --> 47:29.060]  The Wild Leagues also, you know, contributed a couple years ago to the strike that happened.
[47:29.560 --> 47:30.660]  Really bringing attention to it.
[47:31.220 --> 47:31.900]  Other systems.
[47:32.080 --> 47:33.980]  Okay, I want to talk a little about these email helping services.
[47:33.980 --> 47:36.300]  There's actually the email system I was telling you about with CoreLinks.
[47:36.400 --> 47:41.580]  There's actually a lot of cool systems that people have made that ride on top of these services that keep changes.
[47:41.940 --> 47:43.400]  On the bottom left is one example of such.
[47:43.640 --> 47:45.920]  That enabled you to do stuff like Wikipedia.
[47:46.100 --> 47:49.860]  You add a contact, and you search Google, and it'll give you the automatic response.
[47:50.000 --> 47:51.620]  Or the best one is the SMS bridge.
[47:51.820 --> 47:58.720]  They set up a system that scrapes and uses various technologies to ride on top of CoreLinks to be able to...
[47:58.720 --> 48:00.880]  So now you could actually use SMS.
[48:00.880 --> 48:05.680]  I could send a message to this email service provider, and then they'll go and send that as a text, and it'll appear as a regular number.
[48:05.800 --> 48:07.100]  Then you'll get that same message back.
[48:07.200 --> 48:08.660]  Or even pictures and stuff like that, they'll mail it to you.
[48:08.840 --> 48:11.560]  So people can have access to SMS and stuff like that.
[48:12.160 --> 48:12.480]  But...
[48:13.580 --> 48:14.860]  Oh man, we got no time left.
[48:15.020 --> 48:18.040]  And then on the right, I want to talk about a system that I've developed, which is like a...
[48:18.040 --> 48:19.060]  I wrote a system...
[48:19.060 --> 48:21.720]  I really like getting when people send me Internet printouts and stuff like that.
[48:21.800 --> 48:23.680]  You know, I like to know beyond what's on TV and stuff like that.
[48:23.680 --> 48:30.920]  So I set up a system that scrapes all the major social media networks, even despite Twitter and Reddit killing the API and the shitification stuff.
[48:31.500 --> 48:38.020]  It retrieves Internet content and RSS and produces like these graphic PDFs, and I integrate it into a print subscription system.
[48:38.080 --> 48:42.620]  And so now I have like several hundred people every other week that I send newsletters to based on...
[48:42.620 --> 48:45.620]  They can request, I want local news, I want legal news, I want whatever like that.
[48:45.700 --> 48:47.980]  I just want some Instagram feeds on anime and stuff like that.
[48:47.980 --> 48:53.000]  And so I have... they can choose what they want in my system and go generate these newsletters and a way of bringing the Internet to them.
[48:53.180 --> 48:55.300]  Because honestly, man, this is one of the reasons I want to talk to you all today.
[48:55.440 --> 49:03.180]  Like, I think it is absolutely abhorrent that people just accept, as a matter of fact, that people behind bars should have no access to the Internet and no access to cell phones.
[49:03.260 --> 49:04.900]  So I'm saying we got to set the bar hard for a jam.
[49:04.920 --> 49:05.560]  We need to bring that shit.
[49:05.580 --> 49:08.700]  But first of all, we need to release and free people immediately and unconditionally.
[49:08.820 --> 49:10.620]  But at the very least, man, let them have Internet in the meantime.
[49:11.700 --> 49:12.940]  So real quick, this action.
[49:13.680 --> 49:15.080]  Abolish, decolonize, degrowth, study up.
[49:15.080 --> 49:18.400]  But not really direct performances by or groups.
[49:18.520 --> 49:20.960]  I'm really more into autonomous, mimetic, direct action.
[49:21.160 --> 49:22.080]  You know, hopping turnstiles.
[49:22.160 --> 49:22.720]  Everybody can see it.
[49:22.760 --> 49:23.520]  Anyone can do it.
[49:23.880 --> 49:25.040]  Direct action gets the goods.
[49:25.800 --> 49:27.320]  We're tired of these peace patrols.
[49:27.380 --> 49:27.820]  We're not debating.
[49:27.980 --> 49:28.580]  We're escalating.
[49:28.740 --> 49:29.300]  You know what I mean?
[49:29.360 --> 49:30.200]  And you could do it anywhere.
[49:30.300 --> 49:30.820]  Where are you at work?
[49:30.900 --> 49:31.460]  You could refuse.
[49:31.660 --> 49:32.200]  You could strike.
[49:32.360 --> 49:33.020]  You could sabotage.
[49:33.120 --> 49:33.560]  If you were...
[49:33.560 --> 49:37.260]  Well, I want to talk about, like, technologists, our complicity with their systems like that.
[49:37.400 --> 49:38.340]  But it's time to boycott.
[49:38.340 --> 49:39.000]  It's time to protest.
[49:39.160 --> 49:39.740]  It's time to disrupt.
[49:40.320 --> 49:42.100]  On the nets, let's get hacking and leaking.
[49:42.800 --> 49:43.400]  And that's right.
[49:43.420 --> 49:44.040]  I got, like, two minutes left.
[49:44.140 --> 49:44.420]  So that's it.
[49:44.420 --> 49:45.700]  Thank you all for coming, man.
[49:46.100 --> 49:46.580]  Thank you all.