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By Juan Moreno HainesJuly 16, 2020 This is Prison Radio intern Isabel Barbera, reading the words of Juan Moreno Haines, an award-winning member of the Society of Professional Journalists. Juan writes for The Appeal and Solitary Watch. To receive Inside Updates, contact Valerie Kiebala - valerie@solitarywatch.org. Since mid-March, all California prisons have ceased visitations. At San Quentin, telephone use is now suspended. So, for me to reach the free world, I must use the same US Postal Service that’s slowing down mail delivery, because of a Trump move. That said, available technologies could securely and better connect prisoners with the outside world - see JPay tablets. Just think, I mailed this July 16 and you’re hearing it now. Even as this pandemic is raging, a 12 year old could show prison officials how to give us secured telephones. So, the telephones are taken, I contend, to quiet our voices, particularly to abolitionists and especially to the media...the tactic is to quell the audio and leave it to