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‘I walked out with a great appreciation of life’: Gainesville resident accused of attempted murder found not guilty
Julius Irving said he finally beat the system February 17, 2021 | 8:45pm EST Tequila McKnight, 44, who is a friend and former neighbor of Julius Irving holds a sign in support of Irving at a rally outside of the Alachua County Criminal Justice Center on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Photo by Julia Cooper | The Independent Florida Alligator
Julius Irving anxiously waited for a jury with only one Black woman on it to decide his fate. After more than a year and nine months awaiting trial, he would either be freed or be sentenced to life in prison.
Early last year, I realized that I would be 50 years old by the end of 2020. With a positive twist instead of a cliché mid-life crisis, I made a list of things I wanted to do before this half-century mark.
This list consisted of fun activities, physical and mental exercises, simplifying possessions, journaling, taking trips and finding ways to stretch out of my comfort zone. I started off by going to Georgia with my dog to hike.
Each day I jumped rope, walked and read a chapter of 50 life lessons. I finally took tennis lessons, biked the Hawthorne trail, kayaked at night and even went skydiving. I called it my “Fifty Days to Fifty.”
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How Thousands of American Laws Keep People ‘Imprisoned’ Long After They’re Released
Across the country, people with felony convictions face a daunting web of small obstacles to rebuilding normal lives. What will it take to fix?
Kilroy Watkins photographed Dec. 9, 2020 along Lake Michigan in Chicago, Ill. | Paul Beaty / for Politico
By REUBEN JONATHAN MILLER
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Reuben Jonathan Miller is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration. He is the author of the forthcoming Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
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In the run-up to the election in November, there was a pervasive belief that the fate of the nation could hinge on Florida because of its 2018 passage of Amendment 4, which reversed a permanent voting ban for 1.4 million Floridians with felony records. Then, in September, an appellate court ruled that people with felony convictions must pay all their court fines and fe