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One of the writers who took part in a Lenox, Massachusetts residency program last month is working on a memoir about her experiences with the prison industrial complex as a Black woman, mother, and abolitionist.
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On this episode of The Best of Our Knowledge, we'll learn about a new anthology of creative writings by incarcerated individuals in Northern New York. And, in a seasonal project, attempt pressing apple cider at home.
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Keri Blakinger is a Texas-based journalist and the author of "Corrections in Ink," a memoir tracing her path from figure skating to heroin addiction to prison and, finally, to life as an investigative reporter covering mass incarceration.
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Dr. Christine Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. Several years ago, she set out to investigate why so many of her patients got caught up in the legal system when discharged from her care--and what happened to them therein.
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Berkshire State Senator Hinds Presses For Voting Rights For Incarcerated People At Virtual Town HallWestern Massachusetts State Senator Adam Hinds participated in a virtual town hall meeting on ending the disenfranchisement of incarcerated people…
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Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record.…