#96 Prison isn't Pretty - Hosts, Meg and Dick, Chat

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Meg Thibodeaux and Dick Hennessy, Felony Inc hosts, talk about their incarceration experiences to let the public know rehabilitation is not really at the top of the institutions' lists. Health, both physical as well as mental, is low on the totem pole and our hosts have seen fellow inmates die for both reasons. The recent pandemic doesn't help, with visitations from family, friends and attorneys not allowed to see the inmates. And with the close quarters of the prisons and the changing of the prison personnel bringing in contact from others outside of the prison makes for a very bad situation for contagion. Connection to the outside also very limited and important to rehabilitation. Phone calls are being listened to and letters take forever to go out, be read and responded to. Video calls are great, but way too expensive for the masses in custody: Kitchen jobs pay the inmate twelve cents - yes, you read that correctly - but if you are fortunate enough to get a shop job you can get a whopping seventy cents and hour. Is this slavery? Inmates are purposely dehumanized to keep control and because society has decided this is punishment. But dehumanizing does not produce a human that will eventually be back out in society, and that's what lands so many back in the institution rather than being productive citizens. Felony Inc Podcast with your hosts Dick Hennessy and Meg Thibodeaux We record the Felony Inc Podcast inside NedSpace in the Bigfoot Podcast Studio in beautiful downtown Portland. Audio engineer, mixer and podcast editor is Allon Beausoleil Show logo was designed by Carolyn Main Website was designed by Cameron Grimes Production assistant is Chelsea Lancaster Theme music "Free" written and recorded by Dave Dahl, all rights reserved, motherfuckers This weeks podcast brought to you in part by soap-on-a-rope, when you don't want to drop stuff Felony Inc Podcast supports City Central Concern at centralcityconcern.org 10% of gross revenue at Startup Radio Network goes to support women entrepreneurs in developing countries thru kiva.org/lender/markgrimes Listen to the Felony Inc Podcast live on-air every Friday at 10:00am pacific time on Startup Radio Network at startupradionetwork.com