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America’s Prison Problem Is Too Complicated for Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg’s power and influence provides expensive cover for the brutality that the prison-industrial complex inflicts upon its inhabitants…

Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943) - Piet Mondrian

I wrote “America’s Prison Problem Is Too Complicated for Mark Zuckerberg” for The Daily Dot.

Excerpt:

That Zuckerberg replicates what’s perhaps a deceptively benevolent approach—as it pertains to Facebook and Internet access within prisons—shows he’s most interested in addressing rights violations from “mass incarceration” if he gets good press from it.

You can read the rest here. Contact me if you need a pdf.

Image: Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943) – Piet Mondrian