Willie S. Daniels was a 35-year-old Black man serving out a life sentence inside the Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange, a sprawling prison complex set in rural Oldham County about thirty miles northeast of Louisville. By the spring of 1977, prison had settled into a harsh routine for him: days measured by head counts, work details, and the occasional respite of the gym, where men tried to shake off the weight of confinement with pickup games and laps around the echoing floor. Daniels carri
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