I Will Choose Death Over Treatment Unless New York Changes Its Parole Laws
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The disease that now threatens my existence may be the only thing that can set me free.

In 2013, when I had been locked up in solitary confinement for 25 years, I wrote an essay entitled “A Sentence Worse Than Death,” which I’m told has been read by upwards of a million people to date. It describes what life was like in “the box” (the special housing unit, or SHU for short) in New York’s state prisons, and posited that if given the choice, I would have opted for a sentence of death…

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