Nonetheless, the incarcerated filmmaker insists that he will continue to film, if he ever is released from solitary confinement-a cruel practice facing increasing resistance across the country, and over which the FDC is currently being sued. According to the FDC itself, inmates in “close management,” as the department calls it, are only evaluated every 90-180 days for release to looser tiers of supervision according to the lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center in May, FDC has kept inmates isolated for years.
Production resumed quickly that time, but this time, the guards might actually be watching. Whitney, who is serving a sentence that ends in 2040, was caught with a cell phone before, and endured solitary confinement for 60 days as punishment. After publication, the paper notes that silence ended when it received an unsigned statement from the FDC that vowed to investigate the video, insisting that “(t)he department uses every tool at their disposal to mitigate violence and contraband within our institutions.” The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) ignored all requests for comment until the Herald published its exposé on Oct.
