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By Jean Casella | February 17, 2021

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Voices from Solitary: Charles P. Norman on "The Insanity of Solitary Confinement"

February 23, 2010October 21, 2015 James Ridgeway
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Charles Patrick Norman, who has served more than 30 years in Florida’s prisons, is an eloquent and accomplished writer whose poetry, short stories, essays, memoirs, and plays have won several awards, including first place in the memoir category in the 2008 PEN Prison Writing Contest. After reading some of his work, I wrote to him to tell him […]