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How Prison Changes Your Body's Memory of Space

I got my first apartment after six months in transitional housing but I keep waking up in the middle of the night forgetting where I am and reaching for a light that isn't there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional living rewires fundamental responses to environment in ways that freedom cannot immediately undo.

Ideas that help explain it
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