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In September of 2010, Luke Whyte quit his job as editor for the online magazine for correctional professionals, CorrectionsOne.com and began hitchhiking across California writing honest life stories about correctional officers, parolees, wardens, ex-cons and any anyone else with a strong connection to the criminal justice system.

Those stories are collected here: http://voicesofjustice.com

The idea is to enable interviewees to tell their story, to create empathy and understanding between readers and storytellers and, hopefully, to help humanize and explain 30 years of unchecked growth in California’s correctional system.

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Blog Entries by Luke Whyte

Waiting to Die: A Tale of Modern American Justice

Posted May 23, 2011 | 22:19:21 (EST)

This is a love story about a quadriplegic woman named Sarah and a heroin addict named Rick.

It begins on a sunny afternoon in 1968, when a Ford Mustang GT Fastback, heading to Muir Woods in California, slipped across the yellow line and into oncoming traffic.

There is a very...

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How a California Prison Became The Tear Gas Capital of America

Posted April 11, 2011 | 00:31:03 (EST)

This is a photograph of a room where people have died:

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(Robert Walsh photo)

It is in a building next to other buildings filled with hallways where bodies have disappeared only to reappear — perforated, lifeless and jammed under bed bunks...

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What It's Like To Spend 12 Years In A California Women's Prison

Posted March 12, 2011 | 11:30:29 (EST)

Sue White was 23 years old when she stuck a Hot Wheels car into her pocket, walked into a convenience store and pointed it at the attendant.

"Give me all the money in the drawer."

I know this because she told me.

I know that she was homeless, that...

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