One more reason the prison industrial complex is awful: The physical distance it puts between people

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By Raven RakiaOct 22, 2015, 8:28 pm64 pts
The last time I visited a prison was at the beginning of this year. I tagged along with two people who were carpooling from Philadelphia — one visiting his son, the other visiting her husband — in order to do some interviews for a story I was writing. It took seven hours just to get to the prison, a lone…

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