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Articles by Flores A. Forbes

How a 13th Amendment Loophole Created America’s Carceral State

by Flores A. Forbes, The Crime Report

While I was serving a six- to-eight year sentence in the California Department of Corrections for felony murder, I became a participant in what was then the Pell Grant college education program for incarcerated individuals at Soledad State Prison. One day, my counselor ...