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    The Poet Goes to Prison: Nebraska's Carceral System Renders Me (In)visible
    Gina Keplinger
    • Nov 28, 2017

    The Poet Goes to Prison: Nebraska's Carceral System Renders Me (In)visible

    "As of Tuesday, Nebraska’s prisons held 5,217 inmates, which is about 160 percent of their design capacity of 3,275" — Omaha World-Herald, August 2017 [1]. I circle the Nebraska State Penitentiary on an icy Friday night. From 13th Street, construction makes entrance impossible. My car, older than I, rumbles and huffs, nearly drowns out the voice of my phone’s navigation system, your destination is on the left, take the next left, you have arrived, you have arrived. Irony reac
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