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U.S. Prisoners Need Some Love
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
17 Oct 2017
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In an essay for Prison Radio, Charles Diggs, an inmate at Pennsylvania’s Graterford state prison, said U.S. leaders “need the courage to imagine something different than 1,500 prisons all over the country.”

Mass Black Incarceration

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