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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.92,0:00:09.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prisons are a central pillar of state power.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.67,0:00:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In addition to being veritable warehouses\Nof human misery, they serve as a threat that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.00,0:00:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reverberates well beyond their walls, programming\Nus from an early age into accepting a life
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.88,0:00:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of economic, social and political subordination.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.36,0:00:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re an eternal warning to do what you’re\Ntold.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.04,0:00:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or else.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.96,0:00:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an abnormal environment for a human\Nbeing, certainly.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.68,0:00:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y’know... these are essentially cages.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.50,0:00:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to think that we stay in them 23 hours\Na day, come out for an hour a day...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.78,0:00:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's taxing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.90,0:00:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prisons have existed in some form or another\Nsince the development of early states.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.11,0:00:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet for most of this time, they were primarily\Nused to detain criminals as they awaited their
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.82,0:00:52.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,real punishment – usually some form of public\Ntorture, execution or indentured servitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.40,0:00:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This started to change in the mid-18th century,\Nas the modern prison system began to take
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.80,0:01:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shape amidst the rise of industrial capitalism.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.40,0:01:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back then, major cities in Europe and North\NAmerica were teeming sites of concentrated
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.84,0:01:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,squalor, desperation and inequality – which\Nin turn, made them hot-beds of criminality.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.86,0:01:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fuelled by ruling-class hysteria about the\Nso-called “dangerous classes”, strict
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.64,0:01:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laws were passed that turned relatively minor\Ntransgressions, such as stealing a pocket-watch,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.50,0:01:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into crimes punishable by public hanging.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.40,0:01:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within this context, prison reform was proposed\Nby progressive Christian groups, such as the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.52,0:01:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quakers, as a more humane alternative to mass\Nexecutions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.94,0:01:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These early prison advocates argued that extended\Nperiods of isolation would provide ample opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.12,0:01:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for sinners to reflect on their misdeeds and\Ndemonstrate their penitence to God.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.06,0:01:47.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Accordingly, they dubbed these new facilities\Npenitentiaries.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.96,0:01:53.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn’t long before those in power saw\Nprison’s potential as a means for maintaining
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.18,0:01:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,social hierarchies under the rubric of public\Nsafety.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.46,0:02:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the United States, prison construction\Nexperienced an early boom in the years following
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.51,0:02:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Civil War, as the state scrambled to reconstruct\NAmerica’s white supremacist scaffolding,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.12,0:02:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which had been damaged by the formal abolition\Nof slavery.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.10,0:02:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This racist system of mass incarceration was\Nexpanded again in the decades following the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.46,0:02:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,defeat of the Black Power movement, and other\Nliberation movements of the 1970s,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.34,0:02:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helping to give rise to its sprawling modern incarnation,\Nthe Prison-Industrial-Complex.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.44,0:02:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the next thirty minutes, we’ll talk\Nto a number of individuals as they share their
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.04,0:02:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,own experience of dealing with this beast,\Nand the intense challenges involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.90,0:02:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along the way, we’ll discuss some of the\Norganizing being carried out by prisoners
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.88,0:02:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and abolitionists seeking to break down barriers\Nof state-imposed isolation, rattle the cage...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.68,0:02:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make \Na whole lotta trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.52,0:03:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The panopticon was a prison design, designed\Nby Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700s.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.72,0:03:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the center of the building, there’s a\Nwatch tower.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.60,0:03:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the prisoners are arranged in cells so\Nthe guard in the center can be watching any
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.08,0:03:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the cells at any given moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.16,0:03:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In disciplinary societies, the subject internalizes\Nthe feeling of being watched at all moments,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.40,0:03:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and engages in a practice of self-disciplining.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.12,0:04:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because even the potential of being watched\Nmakes the subject begin to adapt their behaviours
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.12,0:04:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what they think are the expectations of\Nthe person who could be watching.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.00,0:04:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prison is the state weaponizing the flow of\Ntime.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.60,0:04:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a factory for the production of sadness\Nand submission.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.20,0:04:27.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a deeply hierarchical internal culture\Nbuilt on boredom and scrutiny.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.44,0:04:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s the deeply felt sense that no matter\Nhow bullshit our lives are, there’s still
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.60,0:04:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something the state can take away from us.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.24,0:04:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prison is like the permanent threat that holds\Nup all relationships of exchange and domination.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.28,0:04:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So prison deeply affects all of us in every\Nkind of routine interaction under capitalism.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.24,0:04:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if we never set foot inside of one.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.60,0:04:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would talk about the Prison-Industrial-Complex\Nas being something that has developed apart
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.00,0:04:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the idea of criminal justice.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.94,0:05:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s become a machine of its own.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.16,0:05:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For corporate profit.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.52,0:05:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For other motives that the complex serves,\Nlike demographic motives.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.92,0:05:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Politically, those who have the greatest motive\Nfor changing the way things are, are the people
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.32,0:05:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who get caught up in the system.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.92,0:05:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it serves that kind of political motive.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.52,0:05:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It serves a demographic motive.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.40,0:05:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it serves as a kind of tool for control.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.72,0:05:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The political economy of prisons is also tied\Nto the history of de-industrialization.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.48,0:05:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the United States, there have been waves\Nof migration of predominantly African Americans
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.14,0:05:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to urban centres like Chicago, Oakland, Philadelphia,\NDetroit.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.68,0:05:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as jobs began moving to the suburbs, and\Nmoving abroad under globalization, this created
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.56,0:06:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concentrated zones of urban poverty.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.87,0:06:08.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so what happened is, basically prisons\Nabsorbed people who were shunted from the
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.06,0:06:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,labour market.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.54,0:06:16.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, y’know... in places like Detroit or\NChicago, people who are considered redundant
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.36,0:06:21.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the needs of capital are then round up\Nin prisons.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.76,0:06:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s really about removing particular people\Nfrom society.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.76,0:06:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your race, your poverty, your history of colonization,\Nmental illness, disability – these are all
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.00,0:06:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that intersect with the prison system.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.60,0:06:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it becomes the place where we put those\Npeople that we don’t think of as hearty,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.52,0:06:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,equal, useful citizens.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.08,0:06:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we dump them in a prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.60,0:06:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Immigration enforcement and detention involves\Na constellation of different agencies, including
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.76,0:06:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Canadian Border Services Agency, which\Nhas been compared to ICE.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.84,0:07:01.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People have been getting deported from Canada\Nfor a very long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.99,0:07:05.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For many decades that looked like people being\Nheld in a regular jail cell and then getting
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.00,0:07:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shipped out of Canada.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.44,0:07:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But right now it looks like people being incarcerated\Neither in provincial jails, or in what are
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.74,0:07:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called Immigration Detention Centres, or Immigration\NPrevention Centres – but are really just
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.72,0:07:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,jails that are specifically for migrants.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.74,0:07:24.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Canada we have indefinite incarceration\Nfor immigration, meaning that you can be held
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.68,0:07:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.52,0:07:27.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we have people being held over eight years.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.16,0:07:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have multiple deaths in immigration custody\N— many of which we don’t even know the
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.52,0:07:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,names or the numbers, because it’s not tracked.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.32,0:07:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when people are looking across the border\Nsaying “oh Trump is incarcerating children,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.28,0:07:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and putting kids in cages”... we actually\Ndo the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.76,0:07:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have children in immigration detention\Nas well.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.56,0:07:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people obviously are aware that in\NCanada we have over-incarceration of Indigenous people
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.04,0:07:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Close to 40% now, of federally incarcerated\Nwomen are Indigenous women in Canada.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.32,0:07:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Saskatchewan, 99% of incarcerated girls\Nare Indigenous girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.60,0:07:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over 50% of incarcerated youth in Canada are\NIndigenous.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.88,0:08:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while it’s true that America by far\Noutstrips everybody in the world in incarcerating
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.92,0:08:08.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people and in Black incarceration, Canada\Nalso has a Black incarceration problem and
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.92,0:08:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a mass incarceration problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.60,0:08:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s pretty clear that prison is invested,\Nand the justice system is invested in maintaining
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.92,0:08:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a kind of permanent class of people who do\Ncrimes, who can then get managed by the police
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.28,0:08:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by the prisons.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.28,0:08:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of the ways that they do that is by\Nreproducing these kind of cycles of trauma
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.18,0:08:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on people.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.20,0:08:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost everybody I meet inside of prison has\Njust, like... horrible stories of fucked up
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.28,0:08:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that have happened to them, going back\Nto the time they were a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.16,0:08:36.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then those kinds of trauma lead people\Ninto situations where those traumas get re-compounded.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.84,0:08:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the prison pretty consciously plays on\Nthose things, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.17,0:08:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like almost everybody has these kinds of histories\Nof sexual violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.88,0:08:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then prison goes ahead and then gives\Nany guard the power to strip search you at
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.52,0:08:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any time.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.16,0:08:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People get used to these things.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.53,0:08:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the process of getting used to them, getting\Nto the point where it actually doesn’t matter
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.75,0:08:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how many times you get strip searched in a\Nweek involves a form of loss, and internalization
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.16,0:08:57.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of hurt.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.92,0:09:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And like a letting go of control over yourself\Nthat ultimately makes people more vulnerable.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.84,0:09:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life inside prison is a highly structured,\Ndaily routine.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.12,0:09:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is true whether you find yourself in\Na low-security federal penitentiary, or in
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.22,0:09:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the administrative segregation wing of a super\Nmax.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.60,0:09:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prisons are ongoing social experiments in\Ntotalitarianism.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.84,0:09:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get your hands behind your back!
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.44,0:09:35.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’ve sent inmates to the hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.31,0:09:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Broken/fractured skulls, broken arms, broken\Nribs.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.44,0:09:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Torn ears.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.64,0:09:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Broken eye socket.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.80,0:09:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.80,0:09:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They use intense regimentation, internal hierarchies,\Nsensory deprivation and boredom as tools of
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.84,0:09:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,psychological conditioning.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.84,0:09:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This practice is aimed at wearing people down,\Nlimiting the need for direct corrective violence,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.52,0:09:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ultimately convincing inmates to accept\Nthe authority of the institution.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.84,0:10:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mental health diminished.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.56,0:10:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slowly but surely.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.60,0:10:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’ll do it to anybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.96,0:10:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lasted a while... now I just say ‘fuck\Nit.’
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.44,0:10:14.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is nothing natural about being locked\Nup in cages and held against your will.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.28,0:10:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all the routine in the world can’t change\Nthat.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.80,0:10:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The days are all more or less the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.64,0:10:27.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Overhead florescent lights flick on as a substitute\Nfor dawn.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.72,0:10:30.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You leave your cell in the morning, and go\Ninto kinda like the big room.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.47,0:10:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You wait around for the meal cart to come\Non.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.13,0:10:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s kind of a brief flurry of people\Ntrading, like, juice crystals for coffee whitener
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.04,0:10:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or something like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.44,0:10:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’ve got about fifteen minutes to eat,\Ntypically, before the guards want to bring
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.16,0:10:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the trays back in, because their breaks are\Ntimed around meal time.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.16,0:10:44.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you’re just out in the day room for\Nthe day.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.89,0:10:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s very little to do there... sometimes\Nthe TV will be turned on.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.46,0:10:51.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After three hours a lunch tray comes on.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.81,0:10:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again it comes on in a cart, in little plastic\Ntrays.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.58,0:10:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody does their trades.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.85,0:10:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then after lunch you get locked down so\Nthat the guards can take their break.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.50,0:10:59.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you’re lucky, you’re in a situation\Nwhere there’s two to a cell.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.79,0:11:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For many provincial jails, you’re three.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.69,0:11:03.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there’s one person whose bed is on the\Nfloor.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.45,0:11:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there’s actually no space to walk around\Nor move, apart from maybe just, like, a narrow
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.14,0:11:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,space to get to the toilet.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.80,0:11:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then after maybe two or three hours you\Nget let back out.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.64,0:11:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’re back in the big room... still nothing\Nhappens.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.52,0:11:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you catch up with your buddies who you\Nhaven’t talked to since yesterday at this
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.04,0:11:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time, and tell stories about all the nothing\Nthat happened to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.88,0:11:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don’t really have a sense of what time\Nit is, so you just kinda go by what TV shows
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.24,0:11:23.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are on, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.96,0:11:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you get, like...
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.72,0:11:26.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maury-o’clock.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.16,0:11:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you have Dr. Phil-o’clock.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.88,0:11:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then Ellen-o’clock means its dinner\Ntime, because you eat at four, in order to
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.52,0:11:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,line up with how long the guards’ shifts\Nare.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.32,0:11:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After dinner you get locked back up again\Nfor another couple hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.48,0:11:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You and your cellies.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.48,0:11:40.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe you’ve brought some books in with\Nyou this time... all the beat to shit paperbacks
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.59,0:11:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have been kicking around the jail forever,\Nand just like, covered with blood and snot
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.77,0:11:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and don’t really get replaced.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.96,0:11:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you get out for a couple of hours in\Nthe evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.32,0:11:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The evening shows vary a lot more than the\Ndaytime shows, y’know, so like maybe its
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.72,0:11:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the show where celebrities lip sync.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.00,0:11:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you get locked back up for the night,\Nstarting at probably about 8 o’clock.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.80,0:11:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lights are on for another two hours.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.36,0:11:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, you just kind of kill time.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.76,0:12:00.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After lights out, you’ve gotta try to be\Nquiet.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.80,0:12:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No more flushing the toilet until morning,\Nbecause they’re these like ultra-powerful
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.64,0:12:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,industrial vacuum toilets that make huge amounts\Nof noise.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.44,0:12:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you wake up when the florescent light\Nturns on, and the whole thing starts over
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.60,0:12:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,again.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.44,0:12:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you go in, these people are going to\Nbe very caring to you and they’re going
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.00,0:12:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ask to see your paperwork just to make\Nsure you have it with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.40,0:12:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you’re going to go through a metal detector.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.12,0:12:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not scary... you’re going to be fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.28,0:12:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was sixteen when my brother was incarcerated.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.48,0:12:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My brother was seventeen and he was given\Na juvenile life without parole sentence — a
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.84,0:12:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sentence that only exists in the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.80,0:12:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Living with an incarcerated sibling, you become\Naware of how expensive it is to even just
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.76,0:12:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exist in prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.46,0:12:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m continually having to upload money in\Nmy brother’s account so he can buy commissary
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.72,0:13:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,items.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.80,0:13:07.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All communication between prisoners and their\Nloved ones and family members is mediated
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.86,0:13:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by a company that price gouges for prisoners\Nto use...
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.19,0:13:15.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,phones, for example.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.73,0:13:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s this move towards phasing out in-person\Nvisitations and replacing them with digital
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.74,0:13:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,visitations.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.78,0:13:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there are, in the United States, two prison\Ntelecom companies that dominate the industry:
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.33,0:13:34.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Global Tel Link and Securus Technologies.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.69,0:13:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What these companies will sometimes do is\Nrequire, in their contracts, that the prison
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.94,0:13:47.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they’re servicing phase out in-person visits\Nand replace them with these digital visits.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.31,0:13:55.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they’re basically exploiting prisoners’\Nneed to stay socially connected to their families
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.34,0:13:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and loved ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.44,0:14:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Burnside, or Central Nova Scotia Correctional\NFacility, is the jail for the Halifax region.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.96,0:14:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s like, about 400 men maybe, and about\N40 women... it depends on the day.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.12,0:14:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can never really figure out capacity for\Nthese jails.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.36,0:14:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because what they do is when they hit capacity,\Nthey just say that there can be more people.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.64,0:14:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Burnside is now at any one time between two-thirds\Nand 80% remand, meaning people who haven’t
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.72,0:14:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been convicted of any crimes at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.32,0:14:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re awaiting trial, or they’re on\Nbreach, or they haven’t got bail.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.12,0:14:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’ve been struggling with lock-down.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.36,0:14:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So essentially since August, they have not\Nreally been out properly.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.84,0:14:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we’re seeing, not only in Burnside,\Nbut really across the country is that these
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.52,0:14:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things are becoming the new normal.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.96,0:14:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So lock-downs, they used to be quite rare.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.56,0:14:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only when there was a search, only when there\Nwas an extremely violent incident.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.08,0:14:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now it’s essentially become the new\Nnormal.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.32,0:14:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so when I say on lock-down, I want to\Nbe clear here that what we’re talking about
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.84,0:14:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is conditions of solitary confinement being\Nextended to be the normal for the entire jail.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.28,0:15:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The old so-called ‘gangs’ that used to\Nrun everything—the Bloods, the Crips, Gangster
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.80,0:15:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Disciples, Aryan Brotherhood—those are kind\Nof like dinosaurs these days.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.84,0:15:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have some younger groups that are organized\Na bit differently.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.84,0:15:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s less based on race than the old gangs\Nused to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.92,0:15:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The lines are a little bit more blurred.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.00,0:15:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you come into prison and you’re not\Na gang member, they’re going to find some
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.40,0:15:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,affiliation to tag you anyway, because it\Nincreases the amount of money that they get.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.32,0:15:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it’s... yeah, it’s definitely a cash\Ncow.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.36,0:15:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve done time in both men’s and women’s\Nprovincial prisons at this point.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.28,0:15:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s kind of a new phenomenon...
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.40,0:15:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn’t really expecting it.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.60,0:15:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gender segregation aspect of prison is\None of its most kind of poignant features,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.30,0:15:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that it’s one of the sites where society\Nmost brutally segregates people and tells
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.52,0:15:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them what their gender is, what that means.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.13,0:15:53.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These forms of gender segregation and differentiated\Ncontrol shape people’s behaviour pretty
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.51,0:15:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,profoundly.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.51,0:15:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since people are spending, kind of months\Nand years in these, like, extremely restrictive
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.08,0:16:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conditions where people are very closely scrutinizing\Neach other, and enforcing behaviours on each
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.60,0:16:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.48,0:16:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This then spreads back out into the community,\Nand it sort of becomes one of those ways that
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.41,0:16:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prison is diffuse.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.41,0:16:10.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not just the walls that, like, physically\Ncontain people.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.16,0:16:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s a whole set of institutions and forms\Nof social control that, like, profoundly shape
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.44,0:16:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,behaviour.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.12,0:16:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means the culture among prisoners—which\Nis toxic and disgusting, and I don’t think
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.93,0:16:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we should valorize it—then gets exported\Ninto these spaces as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.79,0:16:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so those dynamics around violence and\Nscrutiny get reproduced and favour people
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.73,0:16:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,returning to prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.21,0:16:30.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So over time, you do get these forms of, like\Na reproduction of a class of criminals.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.40,0:16:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of, like, people whose role is to be permanently\Nmanaged by the system.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.80,0:16:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Attica Prison Uprising began on September\N9, 1971, two weeks after imprisoned Black
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.47,0:17:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revolutionary George Jackson was assassinated\Nwhile attempting to escape San Quentin.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.07,0:17:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the four-day uprising, nearly 1300\Nprisoners took over control of the prison
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.96,0:17:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and held 43 guards hostage.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.88,0:17:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They issued a series of demands aimed at improving\Nthe inmate’s living conditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.60,0:17:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But rather than negotiate with the insurgent\Nprisoners, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.63,0:17:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sent in an army of 550 state troopers and\N74 Correctional Officers to storm the facility
Dialogue: 0,0:17:24.43,0:17:26.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and retake it by force.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.49,0:17:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,43 people were killed during the resulting\Nbloodbath, including 10 guards and 33 prisoners.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.24,0:17:36.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the ensuing outcry, a number of reforms\Nwere passed to improve conditions in the
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.28,0:17:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New York state prison system.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.07,0:17:44.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,45 years later, on September 9, 2016, prisoners\Nin twelve US states launched what has been
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.55,0:17:47.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,referred to as ‘the largest prison strike\Nin history.’
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.67,0:17:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chief among their demands was the end of prison\Nslavery – a reference to inmate’s hyper-exploitative
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.04,0:17:58.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,labour conditions, and a loophole in the 13th\Namendment to the US constitution, which formally
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.74,0:18:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outlawed slavery ‘except as a punishment\Nfor crime’.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.64,0:18:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The US prisoner workforce consists of 800,000\Ninmates across the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.08,0:18:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The average minimum wage they’re paid for\Nnon-industry prison jobs is now 86 cents per
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.80,0:18:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hour.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.76,0:18:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Louisiana, prisoners earn four cents per\Nhour.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.96,0:18:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,\Nand Texas, prisoners are not paid at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.48,0:18:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A second coordinated prison strike, held over\Nthree weeks in 2018, saw protests, hunger
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.36,0:18:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strikes and work stoppages by prisoners across\Nseventeen US states, as well as inmates in
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.55,0:18:39.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Burnside Prison, located in the Canadian province\Nof Nova Scotia.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.24,0:18:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both the 2016 and 2018 strikes were\Ncoordinated with the assistance of outside
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.08,0:18:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supporters.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.04,0:18:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while they have not yet achieved their\Ndemands, they have helped to galvanize a broader
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.08,0:18:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,discussion about the conditions of mass incarceration\Nin the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:56.84,0:19:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inmates are using cellphones to get behind\Na common cause, pushing back against the system.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.32,0:19:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At Hayes, where inmates outnumber officers\Nfive to one, that's a serious threat.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.36,0:19:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If seventeen hundred inmates said 'I don't\Nwanna be here no more' and just started walking
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.12,0:19:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards the fence, you think forty, fifty\Npolice is gonna be able to do something...
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.72,0:19:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the fuck are they gonna do about it?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.36,0:19:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Burnside prison strike arose in tandem\Nwith the prison strike in the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.28,0:19:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so August 21st to September 9th, those dates\Nwere chosen because of very significant prison
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.84,0:19:32.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uprisings that had taken place.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.64,0:19:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the United States the prison strike really\Nwas a strike, it was based on withdrawing
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.56,0:19:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prison labour.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.44,0:19:41.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We wanna get paid for working in these chain\Ngangs for free!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.04,0:19:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just know, we're tired of this shit, we're\Nlaying down man!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.08,0:19:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y'all gonna have to earn your own check we're\Nthrough with this shit!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:48.64,0:19:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously in a provincial context, in a provincial\Njail there isn't as much labour but Burnside
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.84,0:19:54.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanted to join to address their conditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.68,0:19:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were connected with the Incarcerated Worker's\NOrganizing Committee and working with the
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.00,0:20:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people that were working with the strikers\Nin the states so there was that communication
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.00,0:20:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back and forth.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.72,0:20:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't know kind of what the ripple effects\Nof people being able to stand up for those
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.16,0:20:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rights and take that lead in organizing is,\Nbut as time unfurls I think we're going to
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.84,0:20:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see more and more on that.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.04,0:20:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think there's a lot of hope in people on\Nthe outside organizing directly with prisoners
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.76,0:20:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because what happens is when someone on the\Ninside is caught engaging in organizing activity,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.37,0:20:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they'll often be subjected to really severe\Nforms of repression.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.40,0:20:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they accused us of being the leaders\Nof the army of the twelve monkey rebellion
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.84,0:20:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they engaged in full scale torture,.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.64,0:20:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we were in freezing cold all winter\Nlong.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.86,0:20:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would come by every fifteen minutes and\Nrattle the doors in order to keep us awake
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.24,0:20:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we wouldn't get any sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:52.84,0:20:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we left there after a year, we had both\Nlost about thirty-five percent of our body
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.00,0:20:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weight.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.64,0:21:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the ways that people do try to carve\Nout space to have some kind of autonomy within
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.46,0:21:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prison is to continue to find the ways in\Nwhich they can't be quite as neatly surveilled.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:11.05,0:21:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that just means that certain things only\Nhappen in the showers because, although any
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.31,0:21:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guard can force you to rip your clothes off\Nat any time, they don't film you in the showers
Dialogue: 0,0:21:19.51,0:21:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they mostly don't film you in the cells\Nunless you're on some sort of special regiment
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.78,0:21:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like suicide watch or something like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.69,0:21:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So during the periods of time in the day when\Nthe cell doors aren't locked, that becomes
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.96,0:21:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a place to have private conversations or to\Nexchange things or to settle scores or whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.27,0:21:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So understanding those spaces as a way that\Npeople take back some power over their ability
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.61,0:21:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do things on their own terms.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.12,0:21:45.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This building serves as a constant reminder\Nof the eighteen hour siege in which inmates
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.74,0:21:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,overpowered corrections officers, taking three\Nof them hostage, along with a councillor and
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.71,0:21:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potentially other prisoners.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.18,0:21:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was this incident which led to the death\Nof lieutenant Steven Floyd.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.16,0:22:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's already a migrant prison in Laval,\Nand it's falling apart and the building is
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.74,0:22:06.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,apparently full of asbestos, and the government\Nshould definitely close it but we shouldn't
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.89,0:22:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let them open another one in its place.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.98,0:22:14.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's two architectural firms that have\Nbeen awarded the design contract, one is called
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.18,0:22:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lemay, which is in Montreal.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:15.20,0:22:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one is called Group A, which is in Quebec\NCity.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.72,0:22:23.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About a year ago there was a communique claiming\Nan action that involved releasing crickets
Dialogue: 0,0:22:23.32,0:22:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into LeMay's headquarters.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:25.12,0:22:30.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the fall of 2018 there were workshops that\Ngot started, info sessions and discussions
Dialogue: 0,0:22:30.32,0:22:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in and around Montreal about the prison and\Nwhy people should stop it.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.05,0:22:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a poster campaign.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.46,0:22:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's been a few zines released about the\Nproject.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.14,0:22:43.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Loiselle, one of the companies involved in\Nthe soil remediation, had their offices spray
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.71,0:22:47.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,painted and someone painted a slogan against\Nthe prison on their wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.60,0:22:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In February there was a demonstration in St-Henri\Nwhere people went to Lemay's headquarters.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:52.48,0:22:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also in February people went out to Laval\Nto block a site visit for the prospective
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.00,0:22:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,general contractors, which was pretty successful.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.48,0:23:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of the bidders who showed up that day\Nwere able to reach the spot where they were
Dialogue: 0,0:23:04.04,0:23:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supposed to do the site visit and a lot of\Nthem turned around and went home.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:08.48,0:23:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All through March there was a call-in campaign\Nagainst the potential contractors where people
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.92,0:23:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were asked to call the companies and tell\Nthem not to bid on building the prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.96,0:23:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One rumour said that someone got a company\Non the phone who was like "why is our phone
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.96,0:23:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,number on the Internet?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.96,0:23:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do people keep calling us?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:24.16,0:23:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop calling us.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.48,0:23:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not going to bid on this prison".
Dialogue: 0,0:23:27.32,0:23:31.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a communique that came out that\Nsaid people smashed the windows at the office
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.77,0:23:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a Lemay condo project and that they had\Nsprayed paint all over two condo tower projects
Dialogue: 0,0:23:36.54,0:23:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were also being overseen by Lemay.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.34,0:23:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have access to a community radio station,\NI highly advice setting up a kind of prison
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.32,0:23:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,radio show something that's just explicitly\Ndirected, where they can choose the music,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.76,0:23:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make sure they know it's happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:51.36,0:23:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jail lines.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.24,0:23:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They advertise within the jail that they have\Na line and that it's open in the afternoons
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.84,0:23:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people can call them and that way you\Nstart building a relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.08,0:24:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just being able to talk with people, to connect,\Nto have empathy and to understand each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.92,0:24:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To provide practical support around how to\Ndeal with legal shit, hooking each other up
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.21,0:24:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with lawyers, helping relay calls through\Nto people.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.24,0:24:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this becomes useful ways of subverting\Nsome of the alienation of prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.96,0:24:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the months immediately following Donald\NTrump’s presidential election, the stocks
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.17,0:24:37.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the world’s two biggest private prison\Ncompanies, CoreCivic and Geo Group both doubled
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.47,0:24:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in price.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:38.90,0:24:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Investors had wagered that Trump’s strident\Nanti-migrant, tough-on-crime campaign rhetoric
Dialogue: 0,0:24:43.72,0:24:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would translate into more profitable government\Ncontracts and the construction of new private
Dialogue: 0,0:24:47.99,0:24:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,detention facilities.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.52,0:24:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Mexico sends its people, they’re not\Nsending their best.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.78,0:24:55.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re bringing drugs.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.66,0:24:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re bringing crime.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:57.06,0:24:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They’re rapists.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.46,0:25:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once in office, Trump didn’t disappoint.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.82,0:25:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we are going to do is get the people\Nthat are criminal and have criminal records..
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.58,0:25:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we’re getting them out of our country or\Nwe’re going to incarcerate.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.00,0:25:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Millions of Americans have recoiled in horror\Nfrom the barbarism of Trump’s policies.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:15.70,0:25:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was particularly true in the wake of\Nthe widely-broadcast images of children being
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.19,0:25:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ripped from their parents’ arms and thrown\Ninto specially-constructed detention facilities
Dialogue: 0,0:25:24.43,0:25:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grotesquely referred to as ‘baby jails’.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:27.72,0:25:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But while the images and details surrounding\Nthe so-called ‘zero tolerance policy’
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.59,0:25:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were particularly rage-inducing, the phenomenon\Nof forced family separation is certainly nothing
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.10,0:25:38.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,new.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.10,0:25:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It forms an integral, if often invisible component\Nof the practice of mass incarceration.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.77,0:25:47.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nonetheless, resistance to these images was\Nswift.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:47.27,0:25:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ICE offices and detention facilities were\Ntargeted by occupations across the United
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.97,0:25:56.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,States, forcing several facilities to temporarily\Nshut down.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.44,0:26:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while the occupations were eventually\Ncleared, and the outrage died down, it gave
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.92,0:26:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,us a small taste of what a more sustained\Nand widespread movement against prisons might
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.38,0:26:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,look like.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:16.04,0:26:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Building a practice that opposes prison is\None of the most important things that we can
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.96,0:26:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do as anarchists.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.14,0:26:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think in order to do that, we have to start\Nby changing the way that we look at society,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:24.31,0:26:25.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to learn to see prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.53,0:26:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I think oftentimes prison, it produces\Nsilence, it produces invisibility by literally
Dialogue: 0,0:26:30.01,0:26:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,locking people’s voices and bodies where\Nyou can’t see them.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:33.18,0:26:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So beginning by looking and just being like,\N“where are prisons in this area?”
Dialogue: 0,0:26:36.06,0:26:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Physically go to them, watch them, walk around\Nthem, do protests at them, set off fireworks.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:40.32,0:26:44.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then after that, just look at the ways\Nthat prison affects your life, even if you’ve
Dialogue: 0,0:26:44.07,0:26:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never been there, and just ask yourself “in\Nwhat ways am I afraid?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.08,0:26:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When am I afraid?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.00,0:26:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kinds of interactions are relying on\Nthe authority and the violence of prisons
Dialogue: 0,0:26:51.78,0:26:52.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to carry them out?”
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.78,0:26:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Talk about this with your friends, figure\Nout if you can cultivate practices that allow
Dialogue: 0,0:26:56.26,0:26:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you to break some of that fear or recognize\Nthat you have more choices that you weren’t
Dialogue: 0,0:26:58.96,0:26:59.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aware of.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.58,0:27:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For instance, like, why do you pay rent?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.74,0:27:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do you listen to your boss?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.40,0:27:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do you pay for food when you need food?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.46,0:27:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Break this down.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.14,0:27:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because standing behind all of those authority\Nfigures are walls and barbed wire and locked
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.60,0:27:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doors.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.34,0:27:13.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think learning to see can actually give\Nus more power to resist it.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:15.46,0:27:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost worse than prison itself is the fear\Nof prison, and that’s one of the main ways
Dialogue: 0,0:27:18.65,0:27:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that prison projects itself into society and\Ncontrols our behaviour even if you’ve never
Dialogue: 0,0:27:22.38,0:27:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heard the kind of a clank of a door closing.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.13,0:27:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I’d say that, as anarchists, as people\Nwho, like, love freedom and are prepared to
Dialogue: 0,0:27:26.96,0:27:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,act on it, that we also need to be somewhat\Nprepared to do some time.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.12,0:27:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep in mind, that what we imagine things\Nto be, are probably worse than they really
Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.60,0:27:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:37.60,0:27:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’re gonna feel anxiety and you’re gonna\Nfeel scared.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:41.00,0:27:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It always helps to have people from the outside\Nbecause, I've spent about 27 years locked
Dialogue: 0,0:27:45.54,0:27:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up now, and I've spent most of that with my\Nhead on the other side of the fence.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.76,0:27:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s good not to get pulled into a place\Nlike this.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:54.56,0:27:58.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once your head is on the inside of this and\Nyou’re thinking about the internal politics
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.92,0:28:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what’s going on in here, that can really\Nwear you down.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.46,0:28:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you can keep your head, to the extent\Npossible, on the other side of the fence that’s
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.72,0:28:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always good.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.96,0:28:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also, something that I’ve lived by in\Nterms of a principle...
Dialogue: 0,0:28:12.84,0:28:16.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I like to continue being who I am in the here\Nand now.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:16.52,0:28:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the here and now is really all that\Nwe have.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.24,0:28:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can find ways... if you have some imagination,\Nyou can find ways to make the time you’re
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.24,0:28:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing now count.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.08,0:28:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can come up with projects that matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:29.44,0:28:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you can continue changing the world right\Nfrom wherever you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.92,0:28:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would you do\Nif you was in my shoes?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:36.92,0:28:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thoughts of suicide,\Nbut for my kids I choose
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.92,0:28:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to survive hell on earth,\Ncuz this is hell, I curse
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.04,0:28:44.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whoever created it.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.52,0:28:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They shoulda laid in it first!
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.48,0:28:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they can feel\Nhow they own shit work.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.16,0:28:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spitefulness is bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:50.72,0:28:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ignorance is worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.48,0:28:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s no barbed wire, lots of greenery\Nand striking contemporary art.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.68,0:29:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inmates even have pretty great views out of\Ntheir cell windows.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.56,0:29:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s all part of a plan to make prisons\Nmore humane.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:04.64,0:29:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ask yourself in what way in your area, prison\Nis changing.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.15,0:29:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How are these things developing?
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.47,0:29:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, like in the area that we’re in, here,\Nthere is this push away from using segregation
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.94,0:29:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards various forms of kind of sentence\Nin the community.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:15.76,0:29:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Studying the history of prisons, you see that\Nreformers are actually the ones who are kind
Dialogue: 0,0:29:22.85,0:29:27.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of planting the seeds for the next regime\Nof social control.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.55,0:29:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that no matter what those changes\Nare you should always oppose them.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:31.02,0:29:34.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it’s as obvious as building a new\Ninstitution, or whether it looks like changing
Dialogue: 0,0:29:34.23,0:29:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laws to allow for more supervised sentences,\Nrather than periods of incarceration.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.42,0:29:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The more that you can get involved with prisoners\Nin here, and the more disruptive that your
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.28,0:29:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,activity with those prisoners can become to\Nthe larger complex, the more you liberate
Dialogue: 0,0:29:52.37,0:29:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just prisoners from the prison complex,\Nbut the more liberation you’re spreading
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.70,0:30:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in free space out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.28,0:30:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With as many people as you have locked up,\Nyou have a variety of people that want to
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.60,0:30:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do a variety of things.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.68,0:30:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to begin with a relationship of trust,\Nand you have to build that over time.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:12.80,0:30:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find that most of the things that we’ve\Nworked on have come because of that relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:15.92,0:30:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re just, on a daily basis, communicating\Nwith people inside, and filling basic needs.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.92,0:30:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that may be putting money on the phone,\Nputting money on cantine, driving up someone’s
Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.80,0:30:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mom to visit.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.60,0:30:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A very important thing to organize and rally\Naround is the right for prisoners to stay
Dialogue: 0,0:30:32.36,0:30:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in touch with their loved ones through physical\Ncontact and also through free modes of communication.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:41.08,0:30:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out of that you’re going to hear a lot of\Nthe issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.04,0:30:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as I said, the prison strike arose kind\Nof spontaneously from us speaking on the radio,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.40,0:30:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then getting a phone call about the conditions.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:50.16,0:30:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everywhere they try to build a prison of any\Nkind, we should try to stop it.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.15,0:30:58.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s not let the state provide itself with\Nmore infrastructure to enforce the repression
Dialogue: 0,0:30:58.25,0:30:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of us and our communities.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:59.88,0:31:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would recommend that people check out things\Nwritten by other folks who’ve been through
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.96,0:31:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this already.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.24,0:31:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That includes groups like Critical Resistance\Nin California, anarchists in Brussels, there
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.76,0:31:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was also a group called End he Prison Industrial\NComplex in Kingston, Ontario that was fighting
Dialogue: 0,0:31:14.89,0:31:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against the expansion of a prison in their\Ncity.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.16,0:31:20.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those groups have all written reflections\Nabout their struggles on the Internet that
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.64,0:31:21.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people could find.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.85,0:31:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s lots of people who’ve been fighting\Nprison construction over the years, and I
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.48,0:31:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would go check out all of their reflections.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.07,0:31:29.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prison affects all of us even if we’ve never\Nbeen there.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:29.99,0:31:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is everyone’s fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.30,0:31:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So find your stake in it and be prepared to\Npick sides.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:34.84,0:31:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prison fixes no problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:36.36,0:31:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn’t make anything better... it only\Nmakes situations worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.32,0:31:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people stick up for prisons in my life,\NI can say without any exaggeration that if
Dialogue: 0,0:31:43.08,0:31:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prison was gotten rid of tomorrow, that if\Nall the guards were fired, all the P.O’s
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.69,0:31:49.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were fired, the buildings were turned over\Nto the pigeons and rain, that it would actually
Dialogue: 0,0:31:49.81,0:31:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just immediately make the world a better place.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.76,0:32:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are more people incarcerated today than\Nat any other period in human history.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.76,0:32:12.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One recent estimate put the number at over\N11 million worldwide.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.91,0:32:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And given current trends towards accelerating\Nrates of female incarceration, massive spikes
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.86,0:32:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Central and South America prison populations,\Nsurging levels of global migration and a worldwide
Dialogue: 0,0:32:23.33,0:32:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shift towards more authoritarian and nationalist\Ngovernments... unfortunately, this pattern
Dialogue: 0,0:32:28.07,0:32:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looks poised to continue.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:29.86,0:32:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we continue to slide towards more entrenched\Nlevels of social conflict and state repression,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.08,0:32:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is vitally important that our movements\Ndevelop stronger ties with those comrades
Dialogue: 0,0:32:39.50,0:32:42.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who’ve been captured and kidnapped by the\Nstate.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:42.41,0:32:46.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just for the benefit of those trapped\Nbehind bars, as important as that is, but
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.85,0:32:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also as a way of demystifying prisons for\Nthose of us on the outside, in order to hone
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.24,0:32:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our capacity to resist.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:57.92,0:33:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at this point, we’d like to remind you\Nthat Trouble is intended to be watched in
Dialogue: 0,0:33:01.76,0:33:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,groups, and to be used as a resource to promote\Ndiscussion and collective organizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:06.03,0:33:11.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you interested in starting a regular letter-writing\Nnight for political prisoners, providing material
Dialogue: 0,0:33:11.21,0:33:14.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,support to those organizing on the inside\Nor fighting against the construction of a
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.77,0:33:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,new detention facility in your town?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:17.12,0:33:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consider getting together with some comrades,\Norganizing a screening of this film, and discussing
Dialogue: 0,0:33:21.60,0:33:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where to get started.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:22.96,0:33:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Interested in running regular screenings of\NTrouble at your campus, infoshop, community
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.14,0:33:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,center, or even just at home with friends?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:28.97,0:33:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Become a Trouble-Maker!
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.35,0:33:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For ten bucks a month, we’ll hook you up\Nwith an advanced copy of the show, and a screening
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.36,0:33:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kit featuring additional resources and some\Nquestions you can use to get a discussion
Dialogue: 0,0:33:38.65,0:33:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going.
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Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.38,0:33:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can stream and/or download all our content\Nfor free off our website: sub.media/trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:49.08,0:33:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you’ve got any suggestions for show topics,\Nor just want to get in touch, drop us a line
Dialogue: 0,0:33:53.60,0:33:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at trouble@sub.media.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.87,0:34:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a note that shortly after being interviewed\Nfor this film, Sean Swain was transferred
Dialogue: 0,0:34:01.00,0:34:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across state lines from Ohio State Penitentiary\Nto the Nottoway Correctional Center, in Virginia.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.44,0:34:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can write him at his new address:
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Dialogue: 0,0:34:28.98,0:34:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be sure stay tuned for Trouble #21, where\Nwe’ll take a closer look at anarchist approaches
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