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Op-Ed: Create Pathways to Parole for ‘Violent Offenders’

by Phillip Hartsfield November 26, 2021November 26, 2021

eorge Knights is seventy-four years old, which is somewhat rare in the penitentiary, and everyone calls him Mr. Knights because he is our elder. Mr. Knights has served more than two life sentences for a violent crime he was convicted of in 1970. Because he was sentenced before the so-called truth-in-sentencing laws were enacted in […]

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