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“I’d say there is a majority of open support for Trump within the inmate population here, especially among the whites,” wrote Enrique Banda-Garcia, a Trump supporter who is incarcerated in Washington State Penitentiary.

From Slate

Clark, Twain wrote, “is as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag; he is a shame to the American nation, and no one has helped to send him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was the penitentiary, with a ball and chain on his legs.”

When she delivered a food bag in June of last year, guards told her that he had been transferred from the penitentiary some weeks earlier.

From BBC

In fact, the experience fueled my anger at the racism that I believed drove America’s sprawling penitentiary system.

From Slate

Yuri Malev was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in a minimum-security penal colony, a penitentiary facility.

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