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"All of Us Inside Have Cried Out"

Protesters have started to change the way we think about law enforcement. Will it trickle into prisons?

In Washington State Reformatory, televisions are often referred to as babysitters because of the docility they tend to induce in incarcerated individuals. We’re otherwise bored out of our minds as we sit atop metal bunks all day with our eyes glued to illuminated screens.

The one in my own 6-by-9 cell is usually dark because I spend most of my time writing. However, at the end of May, just about everyone in my living unit was following a breaking

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