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Sera's avatar

If everyone just spent one day in jail to learn how cruel that system is, minds would bend. I’ve been there, and I saw everything you describe. A fourteen year old boy who missed Thanksgiving with his Grandmother because he didn’t have subway fare and jumped a turnstile. The callous and selfish people say: don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. I tell them “They said that to another man as they nailed him to a cross.”

I treasure this article. I know how close you are to so many incarcerated, and I’ll share it when I can.

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Cantankerous Iconoclast's avatar

This is the most magnificent piece of writing I have read so far this year. Thank you Chris Hedges for making me believe in the possibilities of human kindness again.

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