solitary confinement

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solitary confinement

A place to stand

the making of a poet
Jimmy Santiago Baca chronicles the experiences he had while growing up on a small farm in New Mexico, in detention centers and orphanages, and during the years he spent as a drug dealer in San Diego and Arizona.

Solitary

unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement : my story of transformation and hope
2019
Nearly forty years in solitary confinement in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell for 23 hours a day for a crime he did not commit, Albert Woodfox survived and emerged with his humanity and sense of hope for the future intact.
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A place to stand

the making of a poet
2001
Jimmy Santiago Baca chronicles the experiences he had while growing up on a small farm in New Mexico, in detention centers and orphanages, and during the years he spent as a drug dealer in San Diego and Arizona.
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