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WRFR Community Radio Presents:
Deane Brown Reports! Live from the Hole.
Until his abrupt exile from Maine to a Maryland high security prison in late 2006, Maine state prison inmate Deane Rowland Brown appeared weekly by telephone on WRFR low power FM community radio in Rockland, Maine. 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
Between January 6 to October 28, 2006, Deane Brown appeared weekly on WRFR via telephone as correspondent from Maine State Prison, reporting to the Camden-Rockland-Owls Head area on the prison's health and quality of life issues, guard behaviour, and, as he gained credibility, began exposing instances of official misconduct and human rights violations. An alarmed prison administration had him stripped of telephone rights and shipped across state lines across 7 states' lines, actually, to a high security prison in Baltimore, Maryland, from whence in early 2008 he was sent to Western Correctional Institution in western Maryland
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. |