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New York Adding Names to Tombstones of Dead Prisoners
Loaded on Dec. 1, 2023
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2023, page 38
“We recognize them as people, not just a number,” said Rev. Alfred Twyman. The chaplain with New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS) was talking about corpses of people who died in a state prison, in a report published in Gothamist on May 15, 2023.
For decades, bodies ...
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