"Arizona Department of Corrections Director David Shinn said Arizona communities would “collapse” without cheap prison labor, during testimony before the Joint Legislative Budget Committee Thursday."-Jimmy Jenkins, "Arizona communities would 'collapse' without cheap prison labor, Corrections director says." azcentral.com. July 14, 2022 Reminds me of Ursula K. Le Guin's story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. Let's … Continue reading Those That Leave Arizona
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Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag
"30. I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the mildest threat... 44. I understood that moving from the condition of a prisoner to the condition of a free man is … Continue reading Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag
American Prison Writing Archive
The American Prison Writing Archive is "the largest collection to date of non-fiction writing by currently incarcerated Americans writing about their experience inside... ...[The] goal [of the archive] is to replace speculation on and misrepresentation of prisons and imprisoned people with first-person witness by those on the receiving end of American criminal justice. No single essay can … Continue reading American Prison Writing Archive
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