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He took the plea deal and went to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola. But by the time the summer of 1981 rolled around, Louisiana had changed the rules. Leroy Grippen, as he was known at Angola, ended up spending nearly 70% of his life in prison. — PolitiTweet.org

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In Louisiana, life sentences were almost always commuted after 10 years and six months with good behavior. Besides, it’s not as if Grippen had much of a choice. It was 1970, and he was a young Black man facing charges of armed robbery and aggravated rape in the South. https://t.co/Tmye9rj0dy — PolitiTweet.org

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The understanding that people wouldn’t really spend life in prison, which was common in many states at the time, had been supplanted by new “tough on crime” laws. Grippen was abandoned in prison, forgotten along with the rest of the so-called 10/6 lifers. https://t.co/aBJK5Fa3lB — PolitiTweet.org

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