New TED Talk Goes Inside Secretive Prison Units on U.S. Soil

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Very happy to announce that my new TED talk is featured on the TED homepage today!

Here’s more from TED:

The secret US prisons you’ve never heard of before

Investigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management Unit, or CMU, within a US prison. These units were opened secretly, and radically alter how prisoners are treated — even preventing them from hugging their children. Potter, a TED Fellow, shows us who is imprisoned here, and how the government is trying to keep them hidden. “The message was clear,” he says. “Don’t talk about this place.”

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Tagged as: CMU, Communications Management Units, First Amendment, government surveillance, Journalism