Prison reform begins where apathy ends
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“If you get these f***ers to do some boxing, all their issues will get solved.” This is what a CSR leader told us (Mohit and Saanchi)1 during a meeting to pitch Project Second Chance, a nonprofit that we run to advocate for prison reform and to support formerly incarcerated people in India. Neither is this statement unusual nor the underlying assumption: that people in prison are broken in a way that a punching bag can fix; that their problems are theirs alone. Across conferences and meetings wi