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Peter Navarro@RealPNavarro · Jan 10, 2026

🧵Prison didn’t change me at all. I changed prison. I went there to defend the Constitution on principle, and turned…

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A political prisoner claims to have uncovered a $5 billion Bureau of Prisons scandal while incarcerated at FCI Miami, revealing the agency violated the First Step Act by holding inmates beyond their release dates. The author returned to the prison to oversee reforms and published a book about their experiences documenting systemic abuses.

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    🧵Prison didn’t change me at all. I changed prison. I went there to defend the Constitution on principle, and turned myself into an investigative reporter, uncovering a $5 billion scandal. Over the holiday, I returned to the place of my political imprisonment – FCI Miami – to oversee reforms.

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    While inside as a political prisoner, I discovered that the Bureau of Prisons under Biden was breaking the law, refusing to implement President Trump’s First Step Act, signed in 2018, and incarcerating people beyond their release dates. This cost American taxpayers billions, increased the rate of recidivism and crime, and cruelly delayed returning inmates to their families and jobs. I write about it in my book “I Went to Prison So You Won’t Have To.” amazon.com/Went-Prison-Yo…

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    @Bloomberg asked me, “I’m struck, reading your account of prison, how much you notice and document all the pettiness – the meanness – that you see around you: the withholding of medicines, the lack of fresh fruit and vegetables. Did you see a different America, which has informed your politics?” No. I grew up poor. I grew up in that milieu. But I didn’t cry in my beer. I’m actually doing something about it. Read my interview with Bloomberg here: archive.is/8UsA7