Solitary inmate: ‘I done forgot how it feels to touch another person . . .’
FRACKVILLE, Pa. – On a warm morning last week, couples were hugged up on comfy sofa chairs and buying snacks and soft drinks from vending machines. Happiness was everywhere, despite the setting: the visiting room at one of Pennsylvania’s maximum-security prisons, the State Correctional Institute – Frackville.
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