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Kentrell Parker, an inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, in a photograph held by his mother, Janice Parker. The 45-year-old has been bedridden since an injury in a prison football game left him paralyzed from the neck down 14 years ago. Photo credit: Kathleen Flynn, special to ProPublica
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‘Everyone will die in prison’: How Louisiana’s plan to lock people up longer imperils its sickest inmates

  • April 2, 2024
  • By PROPUBLICA
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