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Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Especially
Gets
Black
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Really
People
Overcrowded
Wherever
Prison

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