Crapping In the Joint

One of incarceration’s multiple humiliations

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Pretty much everybody in America has the luxury of shitting in private. But not when you’re locked up. Where I stayed for a year, we crapped right in front of each other.

Unlike state prison, where inmates frequently have their own cells (however spartan), federal inmates — and especially those at MCC — aren’t offered that…