LOS ANGELES — When California enacted landmark criminal justice reforms several years ago, inmates and their families saw a chance at freedom. Aaron Spolin saw a business opportunity. After the
A Times investigation found that Aaron Spolin built a booming enterprise by fanning false hopes in some families desperate to get their loved ones home.
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Known as "stash house" schemes and used by federal agents, the tool to lure people into crimes has been widely discredited for disproportionately targeting Black men for severe mandatory sentences.