I was trying not to lose my mind, you know, and so that’s why I took out different opportunities and I started being nice to people and less in my head,” she said, starting with her cellmate, a woman ...

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I didn’t know how to be a person. The only way I can explain it is, I felt like everyone was a sheep and I was a lion.” ...

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Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

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In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what Independence Day means to them.

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