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Topic: prison-industrial complex

Prisoners reflected in glasses on a shelf (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Were your kids' glasses made by slaves?

Gail Cornwall, Michelle Wallace
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Alex Henderson
Mr. Wash displays his work (Provided by publicist)

Mr. Wash's remarkable life

Nicole Karlis
(Matt Smith/Salon Talks)

In prison, he wrote his plan for success

D. Watkins
A solitary confinement cell at New York's Rikers Island jail (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

The trauma of being a teen in solitary

Emily Restivo
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Voting rights and felony convictions

Kimberly R. Kras - The Conversation
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Not yet guilty but not free

Matthew Larson - The Conversation
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How to solve the opioid epidemic

Rob Cohen
In this June 22, 2016 poto, a man moves a cauldron used for brewing a psychedelic tea locals know as the Holy Daime in Ceu do Mapia, Amazonas state, Brazil. Ayahuasca brew is sacred to Ceu do Mapia villagers, who use it in rituals that blend together Indian beliefs with Roman Catholicism. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) (AP)

Ayahuasca for rehab?

April M. Short - Alternet
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