Karen Thimmes
Central Ohio Prisoner Advocates

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Old/New Law disparity

In a visit to the United States in 1842, Charles Dickens was appalled by our prisons, where a man never left his cell (except to the exercise courtyard) for the duration of his sentence, never got word of his family or news of the outside world. An alternative type of prison was the Silent, which…

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