Piper French is a staff writer for Bolts. She lives in Los Angeles. Her freelance work can be found in publications like New York Review of Books, New York magazine, The Drift, and The Nation.

Piper French is a writer living in Los Angeles with a focus on prisons, the criminal legal system, and migration and border politics. Her other work can be found in Bolts, the New York Review of Books ...

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