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New Developments involving Children Housed in Infamous Prison in Louisiana
On Friday, a judge ordered Louisiana to remove incarcerated minors from the state's maximum-security adult prisons.
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Louisiana Inmate Instrumental in Ending Juvenile Life Sentences Freed From Prison
Henry Montgomery, 75, was released from prison after serving 58 years for a killing he committed when he was just 17.
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9 Years a Slave: Black Combat Veteran Freed After Being Legally Enslaved Over $30 Worth of Weed
This headline is clickbait. To be clear, Derrick Harris is Black. He is also a combat veteran who served in the Army during Operation Desert Storm. And, although the Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, the 13th Amendment made a special exception for people who commit a “crime whereof the party shall have been duly…