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On Aging and Dying in Captivity
This year I passed a grim milestone: I’ve now been in captivity longer than I’d been alive when I was arrested.
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This year I passed a grim milestone: I’ve now been in captivity longer than I’d been alive when I was arrested.
In Atlanta politicians are pushing for a bigger jail they claim will be more humane. But health-care workers are pushing back.
We need more and better data about deaths in custody. But we don't need this data to know that only decarceration will save lives.
Practicing correctional medicine is fundamentally an exercise in harm reduction. And it’s no match for freedom itself.