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Writer based in SF. Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all.
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How ‘In Our Future We Are Free' turns the page on America's era of youth incarceration

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By Anisse Gross Verified
| Yahoo Verified
"In Our Future We Are Free: The Dismantling of the Youth Prison" by Bay Area author Nell Bernstein (The New Press) When a giant envelope arrived on San Francisco attorney Sue Burrell's desk in 1999 filled with "shaky letters formed with smuggled pencil stubs" detailing brutal conditions at a Stockton youth correctional facility, a chain of events was set in motion. At the time, the California Youth Authority was the largest network of youth prisons in the world - and growing.
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‘In Our Future We Are Free’ chronicles the dismantling of California’s youth prisons

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By Anisse Gross Verified
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
Author Nell Bernstein Miikka Skaffari When a giant envelope arrived on San Francisco attorney Sue Burrell’s desk in 1999 filled with “shaky letters formed with smuggled pencil stubs” detailing brutal conditions at a Stockton youth correctional facility, a chain of events was set in motion. At the time, the California Youth Authority was the largest network of youth prisons in the world — and growing.
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Review: Biography uncovers lost legacy of woman whose Dust Bowl novel rivaled Steinbeck's

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By Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Anisse Gross Verified
| Datebook SF Verified
“Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb” by Iris Jamahl Dunkle Photo: University of California Press Like many Americans, biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s introduction to the Dust Bowl was shaped by reading John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” Her grandmother, who lived through the storms, dismissed it for depicting migrants as “helpless victims.” So when Dunkle discovered another Dust Bowl novel, Sanora Babb’s “Whose Names Are Unknown,” she was moved to find a humanized portrayal...
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