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Get to know jailhouse lawyers and their loved ones through the words, wisdom, and experiences of incarcerated individuals who teach themselves the law to advocate for themselves and the rights of their peers. 

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Papa

I wish the world could read this letter so that they could know this:
That people in the system are being taken advantage of and the world needs to know that.
People are looking for a way out of prison but the people in charge are keeping letters of appeal from being filed.
People who work in prisons stop prisoners from learning how to beat the system.
GENDERMan
which state do they live in?North Carolina
length of incarceration--
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