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Megan Comfort

Megan Comfort is the author of Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison, published by the University of Chicago Press. She is a Senior Research Scientist in the Division of Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice at RTI International and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. icon

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By Noah Berlatsky, Megan Comfort, Laurent Dubois, Kaveh Landsverk, Heather Love, Rebecca McLennan, Eric A. Stanley, & Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

In advance of the second season of Netflix’s original series, Orange Is the New Black, which will be released on Friday, June 6, we asked Public Books contributors to share their views on the show’s ...

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