This Prison May Be Awful But It’s the Devil I Know

Speaking to incoming inmates makes me understand why I may not want to move.

Damian Delune
5 min readMar 19

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Currently, in the state of North Carolina, there are almost 30,000 people incarcerated in 53 prisons. According to the newly formed Department of Adult Corrections (as of January 2023, it is now a Cabinet Level agency, no longer under the purview of…

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Damian Delune

Currently incarcerated. Words are mine, Demeter Delune pens them. I write about what prison is really like and the effect it has on families