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Jack Lueders-Booth

A photograph means more in prison. Tacked on a cell wall, it can be one of the few connections to life outsideto the Christmases, birthdays, and graduations passing, or the children and grandchildren growing older. And, in the rare moments when the incarcerated themselves are the subject, it can be validation within a dehumanizing system:

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