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Organizing against mass incarceration. I was reading the interview of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who I never heard of until now. She wrote a book entitled "Golden Gulag," which analyzes the buildup of the California prison system. She says one huge thing that happened in California is how the Department of Corrections experimented there with ways to keep prisoners from developing solidarity with each other.It's made me think a bit deeper about what's happening here at Great Meadow Correction  Facility with the yard phones. There are only 35 of them here, which are claimed by different gangs and cliques. This of course leads to conflict among us prisoners. And now if we get sent to solitary confinement, we get to use tablet phones for two to six hours a day. While in general population, we're lucky we get on the phone for 15 minutes a day. All of this is a recipe for disaster. It fosters disunity, division, and violence among its prisoners.The struggle against mass incarceration cannot succeed unless prisoners can d