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Stark Raven
Interview with Alex Friedman, Prison Labour News
Interview
Alex Friedman, Prison Legal News
 Stark Raven Radio  Contact Contributor
May 5, 2006, 9:58 a.m.
The United States has more than 2.1 million people living and working behing bars. What kind of work do prisoners do in prison? What are the larger implications of this side of the prison system?

Emily Aspinwall, Stark Raven Radio.
Alex Friedman is the associate editor with Prison Legal News (http://www.prisonlegalnews.org). Alex worked for a prison industry program while he was a prisoner in tenessee in the mid 90's.

The interview contains an intro (to the interviewee) and an extro.

For more information on prison labour, check out the section on the issue in PRISON NATION: THE WAREHOUSING OF AMERICA'S POOR, edited by Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (Routledge, 2003)


For more information on Stark Raven and on Canadian prison issues, check out:
http://www.prisonjustice.ca

Stark Raven covers prison issues weekly on Vancouver Co-operative Radio, CFRO 102.7 FM. Online at http://www.coopradio.org. (The first 3 Mondays of each month from 7-8pm, Pacific Time).

To contact Stark Raven Radio, email stark-raven (at) coopradio (dot) org. 604-682-3269 x3019

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Interview With Alex Friedman
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