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Abstract

Right now I’m in an orange prison uniform sitting at a desk in a cell of the Wyoming Women’s Center. It should be called Wyoming Women’s Prison. Do not get confused by the word “Center.” It is a prison. People see “Center” in its name and get a glossed-over idea that it’s not really prison. Prison is meant to keep you away from life as you knew it. You don’t get to be with your family. You don’t get to raise your kids, or go grocery shopping, or drive your car, or use your cell phone. No career, no home, no vacations, no having babies (my personal sorrow), no going to graduations. You do not get to attend any family weddings, nor do you get to attend funerals. You do not get to be actively involved with the lives of your loved ones. In fact, you do not get to be actively involved with life at all. This is the purpose of incarceration: to excise you from the outside world.

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