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prison system

How the Story I Never Wrote Led Me to a Story That Needed to be Told

Report for America|October 25, 2018November 21, 2018

On the Ground — Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, one of the state’s three main prisons, is located in a sparse pocket of the town of Pearl, a few minutes outside of Jackson. To reach its gates, I drove south from the newsroom one July morning, exiting the interstate and winding through a couple of two-lane roads

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