Louisiana Is Trying to Fix Its Uniquely Terrible Justice System
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Vice
April 18, 2017

“Cammie Maturin got involved trying to change Louisiana’s famously dysfunctional criminal justice system for two reasons. First, as a teacher, she was sick of seeing public schools short-changed while the state spent hundreds of millions in taxpayer money keeping the bloated prison system afloat. Second, she thinks that people can change and deserve a second chance, a philosophy glaringly absent in the only state that automatically denies any opportunity for parole in murder cases.”

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