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Back. WRFR Community Radio Presents: Deane Brown Reports: Live from the Hole. From January 6, 2006 until his abrupt exile from Maine to a Maryland high security prison October 28, 2006, Maine state prison inmate Deane Rowland Brown appeared weekly by telephone on WRFR lowpower FM community radio in Rockland, Maine. Brown reported to the Camden-Rockland-Owls Head area on the often poor quality of life for inmates confined in Supermax, on exemplary and unacceptable guard behavior, and, as he gained credibility, began getting evidence from prison workers of nepotism and official misconduct by senior prison management, An alarmed prison administration had him stripped of telephone rights, then in late 2006 declared the msot dangerous man in maine state prison" and shipped across 7 states' lines to Maryland, first a high security prison in Baltimore, where he remained stripped of telephone privileges incommunicado except for letters and occasional visits by his radio producer and family, until 2008 when Browne was moved to a remote high security prison in western Maryland, where he remained until late summer 2009, when Brown - a non violent inmate imprisoned for burglary- was abruptly moved to a new "ultramax" prison. One set up for the...."worst of the worst of the worst" - too risky for a mere Supermax . Brown calls it a dangerous environment, and continues there as of September 6, 2009. Below are links to MP3s of selected 'Deane Brown Reports' on WRFR Community Radio, from January to October 2006. Arranged by month. *** *1/06/06*** *1/28/06
Brown's dramatic reports describe a prison with institutionalized nepotism and favoritism by Maine state prison administrators, management that mistreats both inmates and blue collar prison workers! Spurred by Brown's on-air revelations, award-winning investigative reporter Lance Tapley researched and published a series of articles highly critical of Maine state prison's administrators, confirming the reportage of WRFR's inmate correspondent, and leading to among other things, a sharp reduction in the punitive use of torturous "extraction" techniques, and a specialized torture chair. |