Eli Wirtschafter
Director at KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA)
Director of @WeAreUncuffed, a @KALW storytelling project created by people in CA prisons. Diaspora Jew, sojourning on Tongva land.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
kalw.org | Eli Wirtschafter
I’ve been visiting prisons for seven years, and I can tell you that prison is designed to dehumanize. Numbers instead of names. Gray, tasteless food. Baggy, monochrome uniforms. Concrete walls and barbed wire. These are the visuals of prison. They serve to humiliate the people confined inside, and to alienate them from the officers who watch over them. These visuals are a constant reminder that incarcerated people are considered less-than. These are the same visuals we are usually served in the media.
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