This past Halloween, a dozen or so lifers, myself included, sat in a conference room in Attica State Prison in western upstate New York. A man named Anthony Haynes was making his pitch: He wanted each of us, and whoever else we could convince back in the prison population, to consider giving money to his cause. Sure, he was asking only the price of a candy bar each month. But Haynes had been a jailer for more than 33 years, a warden of several different federal prisons — all of which made him the last person these prisoners would want to give a dime to. He got $3,000 from the lifers that day.
[For more of this story, written by John J. Lennon, go to https://psmag.com/how-prisoner...ducated-1d797ebec9d4]
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