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'Everyone wanted a piece': Inmate describes being incarcerated with Luigi Mangione (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 2 years ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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Vaughn Wright — who's currently incarcerated in Pennsylvania — wrote in an op-ed published by the Prison Journalism Project Thursday that Luigi Mangione's temporary stay at State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, changed the way prisoners there can share their stories with media.

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[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 331 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That is not a good choice of words to describe an attractive person's time in jail, lmao. I think they meant "everyone wanted to meet a folk hero and tell the tale, including the guards."

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 102 points 2 years ago

Frfr, I was worried there for a sec lol

[-] warbond@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that was some whiplash

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

They knew.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

The whole quote is "Everyone wanted a piece of the biggest crime story in the nation." The headline choice was absolutely intentional.

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 24 points 2 years ago

I mean, I wouldn’t mind being his cell mate.

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 11 points 2 years ago

But what if he radicalizes you?!

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 14 points 2 years ago

He’d have to really shove it down my throat for that to happen.

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Come now, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy to be a pain in the ass.

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 1 points 2 years ago

I’m tight.

[-] ProtecyaTec@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

uWu

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 years ago

The problem with your title is that you call Luigi a "Folk hero".

You are not allowed to do that on the news.

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Thanks for saving a click. I only read that as murder.

[-] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

If you expect, or even hope that news will aim to spread truth...

Well, hell. We've got the wrong decade (century?) for that.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 122 points 2 years ago

Although the "prison’s deputy superintendent threatened everyone in the unit," following the interview "with time in the hole if they yelled from their cell or blinked their lights for the media again," Wright emphasized, "Mangione’s notoriety likely softened the amount of oppression the guards here would usually dispense because they wanted something from him. They wanted stories to share with coworkers and friends and family. Everyone wanted a piece of the biggest crime story in the nation."

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago

Prisoners getting invested in something that isn't actively destructive to their environment or each other with their copious amounts of spare time? No, we must threaten them to stop and get back to the intentionally depressing daily grind. Can't have that.

Fuck that guy.

[-] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 85 points 2 years ago

When the time comes. There's a very large standing army currently housed in cells all over the country. And many of them want recompense for injustices they have experienced while the rich hire smooth lawyers and get out entirely without even struggling to pay the lawyer...

[-] WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

Literally 21st Century ”The slaves are restless.”

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago

And in some cases, don't pay the lawyers at all.

[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago

The problem with your logic is that you assume they will side with you and not the fascists faction that are also anti elite. Or will this be a temporary team up between liberals and fascists to topple the globalist forces before duking it out with each other? (Assuming that you are not of the fascist persuasion).

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

"anti elite"

Big quotation marks on that

[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

You are aware that the Republican Party and the MAGA movement is a pretty big coalition of ideologies right? There are some who believe in monarchies and techno feudalism, others are gymnast marxists, and then some of them are anti-elite and anti-globalists to the bone. They don’t necessarily like Trump more than you do but he is more aligned with their cause than democrats will ever be so they support him. They are the most racist of the bunch too so the whole deportations and anti DEI crusade is kind of an added bonus for them.

See Steve Bannon vs Elon right now.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Are there sign-ups for more than those two classes of people? Why are only liberals and fascists allowed to do anything nowadays?

[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I talked with both the fascists and the liberals and they said no, no third parties allowed. You can be an independent but will eventually be forced to pick a side or be flayed alive for being a filthy CENTRIST.

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I ended up in Brooklyn Central booking 20 years ago in a 3 piece suit, 1 white guy out of 800 guys, after some proactive violence early to survive, I made friends with everyone over the next few days. My takeaway after hours and hours of conversations with young black men from the hood was that if stones ever get thrown, it's not overeducated middle class white guys, its gonna be the streets. These kids never heard of rage against the machine but knew every conspiracy theory (JFK, lizard people) and actual wart on US history (contras, crack).