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Shaka Senghor says he was “a drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pistol.” When he was 17 years old, he was shot three times. He survived. When he was 19, he shot and killed someone. He spent two decades in prison, seven of those years in solitary confinement. He’s a very different…

Laura Willard

Oct 23, 2014

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