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description: Lacino Hamilton is a writer, thinker, and activist who was incarcerated for twenty-six years due to a wrongful conviction for which he was exonerated in September 2020. His essays on prison abolition have appeared in Truthout, The New Inquiry, PEN America, The Michigan Citizen, and the San Francisco Daily. He lives in Michigan.
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### [Prison Reform Is a Ruse](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/prison-reform-is-a-ruse)

 By [**Lacino Hamilton**](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/author/lacino-hamilton) June 21, 2023

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