Hard Times Reviewer

Hard Times Reviewer

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Prisons, news, oral history, political commentary, book reviews, and more.

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About Matthew Vernon Whalan

Matthew Vernon Whalan's work has appeared in The Alabama Political Reporter, Scheer Post, New York Journal of Books, Eunoia Review, Jacobin Magazine, and elsewhere. Author of Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison.