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"Was I looking at a prison, or a 19th-century battlefield?"
The NY Times received 2,000 photographs taken inside St. Clair prison in Alabama. They determined many photos were so awful, they could not be published. Below is a few they did publish. nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/…
The NY Times received 2,000 photographs taken inside St. Clair prison in Alabama. They determined many photos were so awful, they could not be published. Below is a few they did publish. nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/…
"He cut himself with razor blades and used his blood to write a plea for help." nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/… 
"Seeing what had been done to those people’s bodies — it just stripped away all of the numbing.... It was very painful to see that all of the suffering that I’ve been hearing about." nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/…
"It is hard to imagine a cache of images less suitable for publication — they are full of nudity, indignity and gore. It is also hard to imagine photographs that cry out more insistently to be seen." nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/…
Worth adding: this piece raises interesting questions about the power of photography and the responsibility of journalists to publish – or not publish – photos that are gruesome, of great public import, and potentially violate privacy of the vulnerable.
