Lance Henderson

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“Countdown To Freedom” by Lance Henderson

Submitted to Contest #74

The holidays aren't much fun when you're surrounded by hundreds of other men in jail stripes...But that's exactly where I found myself this year as I ate my sloppy joe Thanksgiving dinner in the Calhoun County Jail located in Anniston, AL. Each day i spent in there was marked off on a calendar that my cellmate (who had been in that same jail for 16months on drug charges) had made. Each night when we marked another day off, it made us realize how long the days really were, and what all we were missing by being confined in cages within a jai...

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