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Ohio Students Rally in DC
Loaded on March 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1998, page 22
Students from Dayton Ohio's Colonel White High School were outraged when they read about Kemba Smith in Emerge magazine. Smith, a 24-year-old Virginia woman, was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole for refusing to cooperate with federal prosecutors who wanted her to testify against ...
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