What the Videos Don’t Show

A mother at a family dinner table watches something on her phone, her face stricken, while her son and husband look on; the phone screen is turned away

The prison videos on your feed aren’t proof that the men in them can’t be reached. Federal investigators read the same clips as proof of what a housing unit becomes when the state leaves it: half the posts empty, gangs deciding who sleeps where, drugs over a fence nobody watches. And the public already believes prisons don’t fix anyone.