Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands
Mad in America
JULY 30, 2024
“I will be fond of keeping still, and the people will of themselves become correct.” —Tao Te Ching T he hot spring New Mexico sun pierces through razor wire stretched high above the opening of the rec yard of the Carrizozo jail. I sit with a group of men who serve long-term sentences for violent crimes. Fear of other men runs deep here in our circle, here in the mad age of othering, here in a windowless building that looks like, from a distance, nothing more than a warehouse for storing things t
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