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Anat Rubin, ProPublica

Anat Rubin, ProPublica

an incarcerated person stands behind bars in a prison corridor

Louisiana judges disregard thousands of petitions from the incarcerated

By: - November 6, 2023

Two years into his 25-year sentence for attempted aggravated rape, Nathan Brown could tell the man sitting across from him — a jailhouse lawyer improbably named Lawyer Winfield — was not going to help him get out of prison. It was astounding to Brown that he was pinning his hopes on a fellow inmate who […]