These are institutions that they have to navigate like mice working their way through a maze. Each hour waiting in the hospital, or the courthouse, or the intake center, is an hour that numbs them. An hour of forms to be filled and absurd rules to be followed. Sometimes they really are mice in a maze. Sometimes scientists study them, put them in a lab, give them crack, and attach them to monitors, poking and prodding them. Takeesha did that once. “One time I did this crack study for $2,500. It was psychological. I saw the advertisement on the train and went to this building on the university.
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