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The Sunday Read: ‘The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row’
For a group of men in a Texas prison, the fantasy game became a lifeline — to their imaginations, and to one another.
By Keri Blakinger, Jack D’Isidoro, Aaron Esposito, John Woo, Corey Schreppel and David Mason