In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants
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#3Texas is not known as a bastion of civil rights.
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#4"Two men were released after The Times asked about them, half a year after their sentences had been completed."
Horrific. This egregious human rights violation is something you'd think you read about in a developing nation, not a developed nation.
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#5Gift link: https://nyti.ms/421I5Ox
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#7Standing out in any way in a small, socially conservative community can have some pretty terrible consequences.
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#8Merely "fails"? That sounds like apologetic underemphasis to me, like so many other Times stories. The system described is more like active oppression.
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#10Merely "fails"? That sounds like apologetic underemphasis to me, like so many other Times stories. The system described is more like active oppression.
Half of the country will do olympic level mental gymnastics to justify government misdeeds so long as those misdeeds happen from behind a desk and the other half will do the same if those misdeeds happen at the hands of someone with a badge and a gun.
Doesn't surprise me that a county that has both problems this exists somewhere.