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Sean Swain

Sean Swain is has served 22 years of a 20-to-life sentence for a murder he maintains was committed in self-defense. He has done many long stints in solitary confinement, and is currently being held at the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown. A self-proclaimed anarchist, he has twice run for governor of Ohio from his prison cell. […]

Voices from Solitary

Voices from Solitary: “This Massive Mind-Fuck Machine”

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January 5, 2014

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