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Locked Up: How the Modern Prison-Industrial Complex Puts So Many Americans in Jail

Ammo.com Sam Jacobs - November 24, 2019

There’s no two ways about it: The United States of America and its 50 state governments love putting people in prison. The U.S. has both the highest number of prisoners and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the modern...

WORDS OF WISDOM – JUST FOR YOU

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” — John F. Kennedy

JOHN’S BOOK: RED WHITE AND THE BLUES

“The process of writing a book is not unsimilar to the process of rehearsing before a performance. The preparation is a lonely, private affair—even if collaborators are involved. Throughout the entire creative process, there’s an unrelenting, nagging knowledge that an audience will be exposed to one’s art, and this gives one great pause. The reality and constant awareness that people will see one’s creativity permeates the whole process, triggering anguish over each verbal inflection and physical motion for the performer—and over each word, punctuation mark, font stylization, sentence transition, design, and layout of the final product for the writer. It’s not natural to stand exposed for all to see. It is enticingly nerve-racking. It’s yin and yang at its finest. It is a curse to be an artist” (John R. Hall).

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Locked Up: How the Modern Prison-Industrial Complex Puts So Many Americans in Jail

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