Familial responsibility can preserve sanity under indefinite detention

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What saved both her and her sister from madness was a feeling of responsibility for their mother. The living arrangements allowed the daughters to look out for her. This usually meant standing up for her with the correctional officers, who often treated Rasha’s mother, since she couldn’t communicate in English as easily as her daughters, with impatient contempt. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 120