"Until now, my life had been a constant failure," said Guerrero, whose social media experience before prison was limited to Myspace. The After Prison Show is the flagship among the growing number of YouTube channels devoted to the gritty reality of life in prison. "Everyone in America right now has a family member or a friend or knows someone in prison," said Shaun Attwood, a former drug dealer whose YouTube channel focused on the brutality of prison life has more than 175,000 subscribers. Collectively, the four most popular prison channels on YouTube have more than 2.1 million subscribers and about 342 million page views. The YouTube videos allow prisoners and ex-prisoners to reclaim their own narrative, Cecil said, and that's helped feed the reform movement.

Source: Stuff June 04, 2019 10:52 UTC