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Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ... but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that.

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Jeff Smith
Age: 65 †
Born: 1939
Born: January 22
Died: 2004
Died: July 7
Chef
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Tacoma
Washington
Jeffrey L. Smith
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