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janterry

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4. It's not cruel at all

Reply to Honeycombe8 (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 11, 2019, 09:00 PM

Apr 2019

It's the ONE thing that every inmate - especially those that are old - wants more than anything. None of them want to die in prison.

I've never met an inmate - ever - who was so institutionalized that he did not hold on to this dream. Nor have I worked with any inmate, that I did not believe could find a way to enjoy his (or her) freedom.

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