“It seems like you don’t have my best interests at heart.”
This week’s Highland’s Bunker is a tough, unflinching view of the Delaware’s penal system from the inside. Tortious and dehumanizing by design, it is a system we all endorse every election day with our votes, and every non-election day with our silence.
ACLU Racial justice organizer Hasini Perkins joins Rob in the virtual bunker to talk about his experience going through the criminal legal system and how that led to the organizing work that he does now.
Content warning on this one for description of violence and torture conditions in prisons.
Show Notes:
A good show. As the only regular commenter here who’s been down for a little bit, it was sobering to hear about a worse experience than mine. I’m happy to see this man is doing well and working to change things today.
No actually you not alone i enjoyed about 100 fish Fridays. However, I appreciate your perspective. Mine is getting to be 15 years in the rear view.
Joe’s experience, less violent but no less harrowing, is also preserved for podcast posterity…
Did big numbers on iTunes. It’s true.
You might appreciate this article, as well: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-report-reveals-122k-are-held-solitary-confinement-us-prisons-jails-rcna84840
Thanks for promoting this one. It hit me pretty deep if I’m honest.
I don’t really speak with guests about specific topics beforehand. It’s one of my things.
So Hasini just shared. Sincerely and transparently as he said.