“I have been told that prison is a cacophony. It was something I worried wouldn’t come across in the silent pages of the book. Especially in facilities that are overcrowded, with dorms of a hundred people crammed into bunk beds, perpetually lit with blaring fluorescent lights, prison can be constant, unrelenting noise. Solitary can be even louder, as there are fewer humans and soft belongings to pad the echoes. You can go mad listening to someone else go mad four cells away.”
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