Call Me Mandi
Blog, Features, Transitionedrichard rossCalifornia, featured, guards, life, Marshall Project, prison, Richard Ross, transgender, 2015
"Six different people raped me."
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"Really I'm doing time here for nothing."
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"I was messed up."
"When you lead this life . . ."
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On the streets or in the projects
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"Because I’m the new girl"
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The Boy in Cell Number 7
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"She kept beating me up. . ."
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". . . he crossed the anger line."
"Ain’t no way I’m coming back here."
". . . it wasn’t loaded."
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"In my country people play like that."
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"This isn’t my first time here . . . but it is my last."
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"They tried to get me involved . . ."
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[Guest Post] End Solitary Confinement of Youth in Adult Jails and Prisons
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Solitary Confinement: A Mother's Perspective
Blog, Family-in-Justice, Features, Isolation, Transitionedrichard rosscrime, facilities, Grace Bauer, isolation, justice, juvenile, life, mother, Solitary Confinement, time, young
[Family-in-Justice] A Mother Speaks
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[Family-in-Justice] Cheryle and her grandson Anthony Part 2
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[audio interview] Both sides of the bars: K.X, age 19, and the superintendent
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