427 Emails
Criminal
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Prisons and Retaliation
Staff say more than a hundred letters a week come in from prisons, and they read and respond to every single one. The stories he heard from people inside often unfold like this. An incarcerated person will do something a guard doesn't like, maybe something big, like an assault, throwing a bodily fluid,. Maybe something small, like just running his mouth. Then staff will retaliate. Conveniently, forget to give someone a meal, maybe get physical, maybe use pepper spray. And itwill keep escalating, over and over again - the same pattern.
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