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Years ago, the all-white judges of a Louisiana appellate court decided, in secret, to systematically ignore petitions filed by prisoners, most of them black
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- Title
- They Tried to Expose Louisiana Judges Who Had Systematically Ignored Prisoners' Petitions. No One Listened.
- Authors
- Anat Rubin, James Lee Chiahan
- Word count
- 8345 words
The article is definitely worth the read, extremely well written and illustrated. I have no words for the indignation this makes me feel. Not even getting caught has consequences.
It's rare that I have to close a story because it's too hard (emotionally) to read, but I can't make it past the prologue section of this one.
It doesn’t really let up all the way through. Just an unending torrent of injustice
I've had people say to my face "Institutional racism does not exist"
Well, another stunningly corrupt part of the Louisiana justice system. I already knew about the intentionally crippled public defender situation—a handful of lawyers running hundreds of cases simultaneously, backed by literal charities, because the situation is set up to feed a pipeline to prisons—and Angola itself is a literal former plantation that still uses inmates for field work and has a disturbingly high fatality rate.
I see the article touched on those, though they have also been covered more in-depth by Pro Publica and The Atlantic, I believe.