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They Tried to Expose Louisiana Judges Who Had Systematically Ignored Prisoners' Petitions. No One Listened. <[link removed]> The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the decadelong injustice went unheard. by Anat Rubin, Illustrations by James Lee Chiahan, special to ProPublica

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