People Can't Believe These Interviews With Inmates At The Jail Luigi Mangione Is Being Held In Are Real
Luigi Mangione is being held in a Pennsylvania prison for a firearms charge, forgery, and providing false identity to Altoona police as authorities work to extradite him to New York.
Department of Corrections spokesperson Maria Bivens told Penn Live about what prison conditions were like for Mangione:
"Prison staff serves Mangione breakfast at 6:15 a.m., lunch at 10:30 a.m. and dinner at 5:15 p.m.
His cell is closed by a door, not bars. He can peer out the window on the door, which provides some natural light. However, he is unable to see or interact with any other people incarcerated in his unit."
And now, we're hearing about prison life directly from inmates.
Some inmates have TVs, so NewsNation anchors have been able to conduct live interviews with them through the prison fence.
They've screamed, "Luigi's conditions suck!"
They've also yelled "Free Luigi!"
This interview in particular is going viral:
NewsNation's @TVAshleigh and @alcaprari23 spoke exclusively with prison inmates live through the fence at the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon in Pennsylvania. Through flashing lights and shouts, they communicated the prison conditions of their fellow inmate,… pic.twitter.com/qLkWknyINl
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"Can I just ask the guys if they can hear me right now if they can answer yes or no very loud," she asks. "Does Luigi have television in his single cell right now?"
You can clearly hear them scream "no."
The anchor sums it up best: "This is the strangest interview I've ever conducted."
In another viral clip, the NewsNation anchor asks inmates if their dinner was good:
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You can also clearly hear them say, "no."
Needless to say, people are surprised by these through-the-fence prison interviews.
"This is the most America thing I've ever seen," one person said.
Another person said it felt like a "comedy show."
Personally, I agree with this person because YOU KNOW Bowen Yang will be all over this on Saturday: