Flattop for Cherry Hill

Memoir
By: | November 16, 2007

This is a story about the experiences I have had as a prison barber. I was incarcerated at the C.E. Egeler Correctional Facility in Jackson, Michigan 1995-1998.Cherry Hill is… More

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