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Balcer was convicted in 2018 and sent to the Maine State Prison. But due in part to a 2021 law that requires Maine prisons to ...

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The activist and Oscar-nominated co-writer of “It Was Just an Accident” speaks about the abuses he’s witnessed and endured, ...

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Today the court heard heart-breaking, angry and distressed impact statements from those abused by the retired criminal ...

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An intimate look at life inside one of California’s largest ICE detention centers – told by the people who lived it.