Doreen St. Félix talks with the “Just Mercy” author and visits the sites he’s built in Montgomery, Alabama the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and the Legacy Museum which force the country to reckon with its racist past.
When Andrew Phillips took a job as a corrections officer at Georgia s Smith State Prison in 2021, he was desperate for work. Shortly after he started, he noticed a problem. The prison housed about …
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The Marshall Project looks at how poor working conditions, long work days and violence lead prison staff to quit, causing wide-ranging consequences for employees and incarcerated people.
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