Thank You for Creating a Beast

Thank You for Creating a Beast

By Billie Gomez.

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Inmate Billie Gomez wonders, in an open letter to the American judicial system, whether it was prison that “mold[ed] him into the animal I became.” The letter, along with hundreds of others, is part of the American Prison Writing Archive

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