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   Alex Ip (alexip718@journa.host)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 13:53:09 JST Alex Ip

   Today, award-winning incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell announces that all his life's work has been wiped out by the prison communications company Securus.

   I was the judge who selected Chris for his INN Nonprofit News Award this year. To know that one business profiting off incarcerated folks could decide to wipe out a respected journalist's lifelong work is infuriating. This is a shameful assault on freedom of the press

   #prison #journalism #news

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 16:29:10 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Nicole Parsons

     @alexip718 @Npars01 Alt text: Post
     ChristopherBlackwell
     @ChrisWBlackwell
     I'm an incarcerated journalist.
     Today Securus, a predatory prison
     communication co, silenced journalists.
     With no warning they deleted all drafts
     of writing. Years of work. Manuscripts.
     Articles. Everything gone. We're no
     longer able to save drafts. Now near
     impossible to write.
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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 16:56:16 JST gnutelephony

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     @alexip718 wiping out the voice and work of people is a process of erasure that happens outside of prisons, too, especially in petty and failed societies.