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Larry Dunlap wanted to help get people with vision impairments proper modifications and services. So he wrote a letter to the office of the U.S. attorney general.

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In October 2021, I pleaded guilty to a sex crime. My family is still hurt by the fallout.

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Each day, before [my dog Gizmo] was adopted, we would walk the yard together, cheering people up.

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Congratulations, @keribla.bsky.social.

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“If you request treatment for a drug or alcohol problem, you will find confusing information and empty promises."

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In October 2021, I pleaded guilty to a sex crime. My family is still hurt by the fallout.

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"In my old neighborhood, $300 could get you drugs, alcohol, tattoos, even a used handgun. Feeling guilty for disappointing my family by going to prison, there was no way I’d burden them by asking for money for textbooks."

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Larry Dunlap wanted to help get people with vision impairments proper modifications and services. So he wrote a letter to the office of the U.S. attorney general.

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Each day, before [my dog Gizmo] was adopted, we would walk the yard together, cheering people up.

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At the Washington state penitentiary, illegal drugs keep finding their way in. It’s time to invest more in helping people with substance abuse problems.

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"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured. Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

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"In my old neighborhood, $300 could get you drugs, alcohol, tattoos, even a used handgun. Feeling guilty for disappointing my family by going to prison, there was no way I’d burden them by asking for money for textbooks."

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Within 48 hours of Mangione’s arrival [at SCI Huntingdon], cable and broadcast news had set up shop outside the prison. That evening, Ashleigh Banfield, the host of NewsNation’s “Banfield” show, placed a curious kind of spotlight on this prison.

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I hope @bsky.app verifies our account.

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After Exposing a Lack of Addiction Treatment, I Was Transferred to One of the Country’s Deadliest Prisons

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"Prison is where someone with OCD goes to be driven insane, the illusion of agency flayed from daily life." Story via Long Reads.

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When writer LeRon Barton came to my prison, I came prepared to learn how to apply his wisdom to my own craft. But he wanted to talk about us.

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"My former cellmate once filed a grievance because the kitchen staff was not adhering to her pre-dialysis and allergy-related dietary restrictions. ... [T]his 68-year-old woman with numerous medical issues[] was awakened early one morning, given 15 minutes to pack and shipped off to another prison."

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"But in my more than 26 years of incarceration, I have never seen anyone attacked because of racial animus — not that it has not happened or cannot happen."

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Holly Barlow-Austin's "husband brought her prescription medications, including for HIV, bipolar disorder and depression, but she didn’t receive them for days, according to a lawsuit filed by her family."

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My most fulfilling accomplishment of 2024 was earning a college degree. I dedicated my time to planning, studying and striving for good grades. I was inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa honor society based on my 3.78 GPA. — Asia Foster, writing from Virginia

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"Crime is a young man’s game, but prisons aren’t," Walter Hart writes.

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An apprenticeship in Idaho prisons has taught me to trust myself again. More people should have access to these opportunities.

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"I often work up to 70 hours a week, which means I generally earn only 20 cents per hour."

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Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

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"One by one, my friends and coworkers cut me out of their lives. Most did so without a word. They avoided interacting with me or even making eye contact."

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With ingredients from the commissary — and on a good day, the kitchen — I can whip up a feast for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

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An apprenticeship in Idaho prisons has taught me to trust myself again. More people should have access to these opportunities.

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We often don’t hear about censorship in the other direction: keeping our voices from getting out to the public.

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People are starving to death in local jails across the U.S., even as for-profit providers are often paid millions for their care. Who is dying, and why?

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"In prison, we don’t have cash, so commissary items are our physical currency."

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The Art and Science — and Joy — of Growing Flowers in Prison.

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"Welcome to the Michigan Correctional Facilities Investor’s Club. We do not officially exist," writes Christopher. "You can find us in the dayroom when you see copies of WSJ and Investor’s Business Daily laying about and hear CNBC blaring on the television. Approach with questions," he continues."

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K2 and Suboxone in particular have flooded my prison and others around the country in recent years. "Almost every day I have to turn down strangers trying to sell me the stuff. Instead of being a place to 'dry out,' my prison often perpetuates addiction. Drugs are smuggled in and easy to find."

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My buddy has been incarcerated more than 40 years, so long that he is now doing time with one of his grandsons.

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At least six people at Virginia's Red Onion State Prison intentionally lit themselves on fire last year. Now, prisoners say staff are forcing people to comply with strict new rules—or punishing them by cutting their electricity. theappeal.org/red-onion-pr...

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A writer shares a few tactics that helped him live a meaningful life during solitary in a supermax prison.

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"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day."

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