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Freedom, I won’t let you down

I was passing by the federal prison at 7th and Market after work tonight on my way to the bus, when a guy stopped me to ask if I could call his mom for him. He had no phone on him, and he heeded her to pick him up.

“I was just released from federal prison,” he said — as in, just moments before, he had walked through the front doors of the fortress across the street. Continue reading ‘Freedom, I won’t let you down’




the untallied hours