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By Jean Casella | February 17, 2021

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Voices from Solitary: Testimony of a Jailhouse Lawyer

July 30, 2014March 21, 2016 Voices from Solitary
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Ty Evans is serving time in Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana for attempted murder. There, he became a self-taught legal advocate for other incarcerated men—a “jailhouse lawyer.”  There is no right to counsel for those serving prison sentences who seek to challenge their convictions  or their sentences–which is just one aspect of the utter failing […]