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Those Most in Need Of Mercy: Why Melissa Tanis Works to Get Elders Out of Prison

March 30, 2021

By: susie day, CounterPunch

My dad went to prison when I was five. I think we visited him a couple times while he was in jail, before he was sentenced. After that, I didn’t have contact with him since I was six or seven years old.

When I was older, like 22 and in college, I had a random thought: “I know so little about him. I don’t know where he is or what’s happening to him.” I didn’t even know if he was still alive.

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Category: News Articlestag: aging inmates, cancer, CounterPunch, Elder Parole Bill, Fair and Timely Parole, Melissa Tanis, Parole Board, Release Aging People in Prison, Shakespear Behind Bars, susie day, The Tempest

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