Long before the stance was popular, Staughton and Alice were stalwart prison abolitionists. They had corresponded and visited with prisoners, perhaps most notably George Skates, the white prisoner who had refused to play the deathly race card in the Lucasville prison uprising, and was willing to pay for solidarity with his life. Staughton said he learned more about the subject in one prison than he had in twenty steel mills. More
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