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High School Journalists Garner National Attention by Exposing School’s Use of Prisoner Labor
Loaded on July 1, 2020
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2020, page 54
Filed under:
Prison Labor.
Location:
Massachusetts.
by Douglas Ankney
Amherst-Pelham Regional High School (APRHS) English teacher Sara Barber-Just was rubbing sleep from her eyes at 5:30 a.m. while reading the June 28, 2019, online edition of The New York Times. Then her jaw dropped in amazement when she saw the story about her journalism class’ ...
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