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By Jean Casella | February 17, 2021

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ACLU Gets One Angola Prisoner Released from Solitary

January 26, 2010October 25, 2010 James Ridgeway and Jean Casella
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana is kept busy trying to safeguard the basic constitutional rights of the state’s 45,000+ prisoners. According to the group’s web site: Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. We have 13 state prisons and a staggering 108 local jails. Our prisons rival Mississippi as the most abhorrent […]