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Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay
Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay
by Maya Schenwar
"I took my first photograph last November. That's one picture in 17 years," Pelican Bay prisoner Jimmy Flores writes to me. He lives in the California prison's Secure Housing Units (SHUs) – solitary confinement – where he passes 22.5 hours per day ...
by Maya Schenwar
"I took my first photograph last November. That's one picture in 17 years," Pelican Bay prisoner Jimmy Flores writes to me. He lives in the California prison's Secure Housing Units (SHUs) – solitary confinement – where he passes 22.5 hours per day ...
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More from Maya Schenwar:
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