Crowbar Hotel - Crowbar Hotel: Live From CDCR is the culmination of contraband smartphone photos taken in prison by incarcerated Bloods and Crips gang members. The photos and videos were submitted by the inmates, and the content was found by following their social media accounts. Most of the content was created between 2016 and 2019 at various CDCR state prisons in California, such as Lancaster, California City, Corcoran, Calipatria, and other facilities. The incarcerated individuals are serving sentences ranging from minimum to maximum, from security levels one to four.
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\nThese are young gang members ready to prove themselves and gangsters who have been in prison for more than twenty years.
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\nThis book is a visual anthropological documentation of the covert smartphone activity of Bloods and Crips gang members locked up in California state prisons, who also represent the majority of (online-active) inmates.
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\nContent includes satellite photos of CDCR prison facilities, portraits and videos of inmates getting tattoos, working out and cooking inside their cells.
