No Place Like Home
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The Leprosy Prison Experiment
The bureau of prisons wanted to turn the facility into this huge prison with a couple of thousand inmates. They assumed that those 130 patients would be dying off in a year or two. What they didn't realize is that leprosy doesn't kill you. The remaining patients were offered an annual stipend of 33,000 dollars to leave carville and move to a nursing home. When i met him two years ago, he was one of six patients left. Mister pete rode around the giant empty hallways on his bicycle. I asked him whether he'd ever consider leaving, even for a night. It's not natual.
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