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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. He is the author of Doing Time: American Mass Imprisonment Pandemic.

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