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‘Out of State’ Review: A Tender Look At Life Beyond Prison

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Christopher Campbell
May 06, 2019
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Staying afloat in the middle of the ocean is hard enough. It’s learning to swim that can make or break a person, and in Ciara Lacy’s Out of State, her subjects struggle in the face of an anchorless future. They are inmates from the Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizona, one of several for-profit prisons in the continental United States that solely inca…

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