The Deportation Machine

Mark Lyttle was sentenced to serve a hundred days for a misdemeanor. His prison intake form contained two fateful errors.
Mark Lyttle was sentenced to serve a hundred days for a misdemeanor. His prison intake form contained two fateful errors.Photograph by Samantha Appleton

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