PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center sits on a strip of forgotten land between Interstate 95 and the Delaware River, 11 miles northeast of Philadelphia's downtown. It's a tucked-away part of America's seventh-largest metropolis, home to a sprawling campus of five city jails that much of this city never sees. Attorneys, here to visit inmates, sit in idling cars alongside the road with cellphones attached to their ears. Three rings of barbed wire top the two-story wall of rough-hewn red bricks at the main entrance. At the top of the wall are these words: "Opportunity to change with dignity.
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