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From Dave Zirin: After decades behind bars, no one would have blinked if Rubin Hurricane Carter had coasted on his celebrity for the remainder of his days. Instead Mr. Carter started a non-profit organization in his adopted home of Toronto in 2004 called Innocence International, aimed at shedding light on the cases of the wrongly convicted. In a country with the highest prison rate on the planet, where quality legal representation is more privilege than right, Rubin Carter knew that he had left an untold number behind, forgotten in a catastrophic system as inert as it is cruel and unusual. My latest for The Nation Magazine On the Death and Lifes Work of the Unconquerable Rubin Hurricane Carter bit.ly/1i0QFCd
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:30:17 +0000

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