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Sylvia Ryerson is an independent journalist and incoming PhD student in American Studies at Yale University. She worked as a reporter in Letcher County, Kentucky, for five years, covering the regional prison system, and led the production of Calls from Home, a nationally recognized radio program broadcasting phone messages from family members to their loved ones incarcerated in rural Appalachia.
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