How Prisons Turn Traumatized Women Into Unpaid Crisis Workers
Lynne does this work without compensation. She receives no sentence reduction, no credits toward parole consideration. The prison extracts her labor and her psychological well-being while offering nothing in return except the brittle satisfaction of knowing she may have kept someone alive for one more shift.
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Zohran Mamdani and the Sorcery of Soft Rebellion
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Race & Place
Baltimore harm reductionists target paraphernalia criminalization
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