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Shortlisted for Contest #276 ⭐️
(This story discusses prison conditions, violence, and human suffering. Reader discretion is advised.) A local university was seeking a writer for a year-long position in its prison education program, and as part of the job, I was to go into the Facility—a century-old maximum security prison—three to four times a month and visit with incarcerated students, many of whom had been incarcerated for decades and would continue to be well after they graduated from the program. Some, I learned shortly after taking the job, would never leave. Until I...
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