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Paying the price for freedom: How restitution can trap inmates in modern debtors’ prisons

AFTER SERVING 14 YEARS on a 28-to-life sentence for commercial burglary, a California Board of Parole Hearings panel granted Vincent O’Bannon a parole date. But before he could pick out his parole clothes or decide what he wanted for breakfast on his first day out, O’Bannon received devastating news. Parole authorities said he did not […]

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