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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.”

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