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The solitude of prison forces the mind to grapple with many things

Letters from the inside

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Shaun Usher
Aug 24, 2023
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Nelson Mandela revisiting his cell in 1994 (Photo by David Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

The letters quoted below were all written from prison, and that’s the only reason they sit together. To be clear, by listing them here I am in no way—not even a tiny bit!—equating the wildly disparate actions of the letter writers that led them to be imprisone…

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