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Basim Floro

Basim Floro is imprisoned at Oregon State Penitentiary. Street Roots publishes excerpts from a book he’s writing about his incarceration at Oregon state correctional facilities.

Articles by Basim Floro

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    Barbed wire fence

    Opinion | In Oregon, prisoners learn violence, not rehabilitation

    Even nonviolent offenders accept the culture for the sake of their survival, a state prisoner explains
    By
    Basim Floro
    May 12, 2021
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    Opinion | Solitary confinement ‘was like being in a zoo’

    ‘I understood what it felt like to be broken,’ recounts a prisoner at Oregon State Penitentiary
    By
    Basim Floro
    April 14, 2021

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