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Fake News and Dirty Game (3:26) Dontie Mitchell

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"Fake News and a Dirty Game." I was watching the news for upstate New York when a report was aired about three correctional officers being injured by a prisoner at Greene Correctional Facility in Coxsackie, New York. I've been noticing this a lot in the past year. Upstate news agencies love to report on how correction offices are being attacked and injured by prisoners or how prison violence is up. What these biased news agencies have failed to report is how correctional officers are deliberately provoking most of these incidents. And how the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has deliberately prevented prisoners from engaging in positive and constructive activities that cut down on prison violence. All this is happening in reaction to the successes of the prison reform/prison abolition movement. People are slowly beginning to realize how immoral and racist mass incarceration is and how wasteful and ineffective prisons are. This threatens a whole lot of jobs, raise the age, bai