Inmate Billie Gomez wonders, in an open letter to the American judicial system, whether it was prison that “mold[ed] him into the animal I became.” The letter, along with hundreds of others, is part of the American Prison Writing Archive.
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The NationTwitterFounded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has chronicled the breadth and depth of political and cultural life, from the debut of the telegraph to the rise of Twitter, serving as a critical, independent, and progressive voice in American journalism.