Escaping "Escape from Dannemora" & the joys of bustin' out

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I’d never harbored any political aspirations until one day back, oh, in the mid- ‘90s when I heard one friend put down another more pathetic friend for his inability to secure female companionship.



“Man, you couldn’t get laid in a women’s prison with a fistful of pardons.”



I remember laughing at the funny line, but then becoming very quiet as I succumbed to a silent