READING about the short, troubled life of Freddie Gray ” who suffered lead poisoning as a child, was arrested for drug offences more than a dozen times, and eventually died in police custody nearly two weeks ago in Baltimore ” I recalled a description of this world of young men, mostly black, trapped in Americas criminal justice system. It was written by an arch-conservative, who was at the time a prisoner in a Florida jail.
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