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    The ZO

    Where prison guards’ favorite tactic is messing with your head.
    by Illustrated by Molly Crabapple and narrated by Michael K. Williams Feb 27, 2020 2 minutes

    Back in May 2017, Vesla Weaver, a political scientist then teaching at Yale (now at Johns Hopkins) sent me a student project she thought deserved a wider audience. The thesis by senior Patrick Doolittle was called “‘The Zo’: Disorientation and Retaliatory Disorientation in American Prisons.”

    “If I could give this

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