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America’s Prisons: A Road to Nowhere

By Ben Notterman / Huffington Post Video of Henry McCollum’s release shows the exonerated death row inmate making his way through a crowd of excited onlookers and into his family’s car, where he could not figure out how to fasten his seatbelt. In his defense, many states did not begin mandating the use of seatbelts

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Prison Closures Cause Economic Turmoil

By Prison Legal News Shrinking state budgets across the country is leading to prison closures that, in turn, have a negative impact on communities that depend on the facilities as a source of jobs and revenue. [See: PLN, June 2013, p.1; April 2009, p.1]. Small towns in Kentucky, Georgia, and New York are among those

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