Tamar Sarai is a writer and staff reporter at Prism where she covers the criminal legal system. Her work has been published in Essence, Shadowproof, Capital B, and other publications
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One School’s Missing History
In Pitts’s case, the history of the Kansas Technical Institute is just the beginning of a tale that led to Topeka Correctional, the school-to-prison pipeline, a community’s loss, and a distinctly unnerving world.
September 28, 2023
