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    Stephen Tourlentes

    Mar 06, 2018 3 minutes

    Mass incarceration forms a network of thousands of institutional units of various scales—prisons, courts, private corporations, and a host of government agencies whose tentacles reach across states and outside the borders of the United States. This system is so vast and sprawling it has achieved a sublime dimension that is beyond the comprehension of those Americans not engulfed by its inner workings. Stephen Tourlentes’s serial photographic study, (1996–ongoing), documents how this

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