PUBLICATION: Logic(s)
DATE: 2023
In 2020, North Carolina contracted TextBehind, a company that scans mail, to process all incoming personal letters and pictures sent to prisoners. To justify this move, prison officials blamed drug-soaked paper being smuggled in through letters. Phillip refutes this excuse to uncover how companies like TextBehind are really selling surveillance by giving law enforcement access to the database full of prisoner’s personal mail.