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On Sunday night, the Philadelphia Eagles routed the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans. Fans flooded Philadelphia’s city center after the win and climbed light poles — a ...

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When mail call is announced, I feel hopeful, excited and nervous. Standing at my cell door, I watch the guard get ...

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. 6:15 a.m.: I wake up to the shrill sound of the count bell. Crawling out of bed, the first thing I do is feed ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When I entered the Sacramento County Main Jail on Dec. 9, 2009, I marveled at the magnitude of the building and ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. It is difficult to describe the overwhelming excitement of getting mail while incarcerated. When I started this ...