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 Life in the Surround of a Rural Prison Town

    This article tells us about the injustice in state prisons in the US. Ken tells us about his time in prison and about the ways they make money off of the prisoners by selling them over priced items with insanely high markups. eventually he decided to stop buying these goods so that they would stop making money off of him. some of the other prisoners also did this. The CO's (Corrections Officers) were not happy about this. When they found out that Ken was the one who started this they put him in solitary confinement for a week as punishment.
    Later Ken talks to us about his plan to get previously incarcerated people to invest in these prisons so eventually they will own 51% of the prisons stock. Then can start changing the way things happen in these prisons. his end goal is to get people to make money off of the system that made money off of them.
    Ken is now in his late thirties. he was in prison for part of his teen years. he now works as a consultant in a neighboring state. and says that it was very hard for him to find a job due to his court record. he is now trying to find ways to help ex prisoners get jobs easier.
    I liked this article because it shed light on the injustices of prisons in America.

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