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| Shaquille Payne, 20, does homework in his new apartment |
The casual onlooker would have thought we were discussing the weather. Or maybe I’d asked him how his third year of college was going. Instead, Shaquille Payne was detailing a childhood in which he’d been left to raise himself as his family served time behind bars.
In 2001, when Payne was about 8 years old, he was one of
approximately 1.5 million children missing a parent, due to incarceration.
