The running club at a maximum-security prison

At a race inside an Oregon prison, inmates and outsiders get a rare chance to connect

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I DON'T KNOW about those shorts," the correctional officer says. "They're supposed to go to the knee."

"They do go to the knee," I say, tugging at my waistband until it's riding precariously low, "to the top of the knee. Look, I wore these last time and nobody said anything."

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