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Jim Bethke, Texas Indigent Defense Commission
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"I always tell people interested in these issues that your blog is the most important news source, and have had high-ranking corrections officials tell me they read it regularly."
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Kim Vickers,
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1 comment:
Oh Canada!
It's amazing it takes foreigners to stand up to Texas prison abuses while too many of us so-called tough Texans remain silent.
I guess a Canadian sees our inhuman incarceration machine as the international human rights disgrace it really is, while to us it just seems normal.
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