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Beth Shelburne

Crime

Alabama’s ‘Vending Machine Justice’ Victims Are Living ‘Like Livestock’

COVID-19 has led many Americans to rethink prison. But a habitual offender law has condemned hundreds of people who never physically hurt anyone to grow old and die behind bars.

Beth Shelburne Daily Beast Sep 2020 40min Permalink