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It’s not clear whether their children’s fathers were other inmates or prison officials, but this detail was not important to legislators who, in 1848, passed a new law declaring that all children born in the penitentiary of African
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“My love for her is so great, that if all the leaves on all the trees were tongues, they could not declare it.”
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“When you write something, you focus your full attention on it. It’s almost impossible to write one thing while thinking about another. The act of putting it on paper keeps your thoughts and intentions aligned.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“40 percent of psychiatrists don’t accept any insurance; more than half of states have a critical shortage of psychiatrists who accept it.”
― Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
― Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
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