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I’m fairly certain that this entire article is a promo piece—this convicted criminal forged a career upon his prison release as an author, writing a faux-virtue signaling, I’m-a-victim-not-a-crook book about the supposed state of affairs among our prison systems. The whole piece reads like a CV, with
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