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What made me finally recognize the indifferent cruelty of my own past was sitting and talking and working with and knowing the people who suffered because of what people like me had done. None of these women rebuked me; most of them had been involved in the drug business themselves. Yet for the first time I really understood how my choices made me complicit in theirsuffering. I was the accomplice to their addiction.
— Apr 06, 2020 12:40PM
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Natalie
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If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong, good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and all the consequences that accompanied that choice. And it gave me the simple but powerful satisfaction of extending a kindness to another person in a tough spot.
— Apr 13, 2020 10:07AM
Natalie
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The formal relationship enforced by the institution, is that one person's word means everything and the other's means almost nothing; one person can command the other to do just about anything, and refusal can result in total physical restraint. That fact is like a slap in the face.
— Mar 29, 2020 12:20PM
Natalie
is on page 71 of 322
The fashion column from the New York Times...coverng half the page were phographs of women of color every age, race, size and shape, all clad in brilliant orange...I stuck the clipping in my locker where everytime I opened it I was greeted by my dear friends handwritting and smiling faces of women with orange coats, hats, scarves and even baby carriages. Apparently orange was the new black.
— Mar 22, 2020 11:07PM
Natalie
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Guidelines established by Congress in the 1980s required federal judges to impose set sentences for drug crimes, regardless of the specific circumstances of a case...drug offenses are the primary reason that the US prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to 2.5 million people, a nearly 300% increase. We now lock up 1 out of every 100 adults, more than any other country in the world.
— Mar 18, 2020 09:57PM
