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: The Justice Gambit

College and the Former Inmate

By Michael Blankenship

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The spartan dorm room where Mario Rocha spent his first semester at George Washington University felt a little like solitary confinement. He should know. He once spent a summer in solitary confinement. In some ways, Rocha is a typical student at GWU, where he enrolled in January as a freshman. He has a gift for writing, a new voter registration card and not much experience behind the wheel of an automobile. But there is one difference. Rocha spent 10 years in juvenile detention and prison after being arrested and then convicted of first-degree murder. Read more... Tales of the wrongfully convicted are now common place. The fact that little is being done to reform the criminal justice system in order to minimize the ultimate injustice should concern everyone...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on November 25, 2009 (boomark / email).

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