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States Increase Efforts to End ‘Internal Exile’ of Former Incarcerees: Report

The Crime Report

Additionally, 17 states passed 26 new laws that open opportunities to previously incarcerated individuals, allowing them to pursue employment and occupational licensing, while dozens of other laws now open housing, education, driver’s license, and other public benefits. not disenfranchising at all).

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A Reform DA Fights Back

The Crime Report

Then, in 1963, a young Becton watched as police in Birmingham, Alabama used high-powered water hoses and dogs to attack Black people fighting for equal rights. Becton’s office filed felony charges against Andrew Hall, a white Danville police officer and sheriff’s deputy, for the on-duty killing of Laudemer Arboleda.

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