How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison.
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How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison.
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It takes a constitutional amendment followed by a statewide vote to legalize balloting behind bars. Will it happen?
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By Austin Sarat / The Conversation In January 2023 two Democratic representatives, Judith Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, proposed a bill that would offer prisoners in Massachusetts a new way to win reduction in their sentences: by donating their bone marrow or vital organs. The bill stated that the commissioner of the Department of Corrections should establish both […]
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