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Personal Narrative: The Growth Of Prison

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Living during this period, it seemed like the growth of prisons were becoming a new way of life in America. It seemed like more people were being incarcerated for no reason. I know that because, even my own father was incarcerated because he was framed for a crime he didn’t commit. It was hard for me growing up to understand the idea that my father was not going to be in my life until I was about 16 years old. He went to jail when I was about three, so that was a total of 13 years that my father had to miss of my childhood. I asked him how was he able to make it through and he said, “I thought about you and your momma which helped me get through those long thirteen long years.” America back then was not the land of the free; it was more the

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