The Last Breakfast
I kept my promise to break bread with my friend Dobie one last time, right before the state of Louisiana put him to death.
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I kept my promise to break bread with my friend Dobie one last time, right before the state of Louisiana put him to death.
Prison transfers are routinely used to punish, disorient, and isolate incarcerated people, disconnecting them from family, friends, community, and all sense of place.
Writing about people you encounter in prison carries special responsibilities.
Imprisonment violently separates us from those we love most. Even those we come to love on the inside.
On the 50th anniversary of a flashpoint of the American penal system, the cries of Attica still resonate today.
One year after a governor's clemency, Renaldo Hudson, who spent 37 years incarcerated, reflects on violence, prisons, and the vital importance of education and support for those incarcerated.