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Drugs were a way of life in the economically struggling “Brickyard” neighborhood of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Nicky Patterson grew up.
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When Deleria Huff’s mother began to grow old, she would sometimes fall in the hallway of her three-bedroom family home in Mobile, Alabama. Deleria would be there to pick her up.
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In late 2016, Janine Tarver was up for parole for the third time. She’d already served over 16 years of a 20-year sentence, but she wasn’t optimistic about her chances of release.
Willie Nash was sentenced to a 12-year prison sentence for bringing a cell phone into a county jail. After the Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed Nash’s sentence, the SPLC filed a motion on behalf of Nash, urging the court to rehear his case and arguing that the sentence is a violation of the...
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When Shanna Rainey was a mother to two young children, she began using methamphetamine.
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Ashley Buford could not hold back the tears when she saw her brother behind a chain-link fence with barbed wire on top.
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It was pouring rain the day Willie Parker left William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility after 36 years in prison.
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For years, Alabama’s prison system has been under a microscope. Harsh sentencing laws coupled with chronic underfunding have led to horrific conditions for people behind bars.
