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The Louisiana State Penitentiary sits on 18,000 acres of farmland that used to be a plantation called Angola. Today, 73% of Louisiana’s prisoners facing life sentences are Black, and most of them are at Angola, where jobs still include working in the fields for pennies an hour. https://t.co/DhuXU1dwXS — PolitiTweet.org

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Until a recent push to free them, many of Louisiana’s judges, lawyers and criminal justice reform advocates were not aware of the state’s broken promise to those who were sentenced to life before 1973. https://t.co/mNQGAJiRhI — PolitiTweet.org

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After 20 years, Grippen was convinced he’d never get out of prison. He resolved to get in shape and try to escape. What did he have to lose? “If they catch me and kill me, they just kill me. If they don’t kill me, I get away. I might get away, I might not,” he thought. https://t.co/cLANNgdpdQ — PolitiTweet.org

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