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Josie Duffy Rice Investigates Gruesome State Violence at an Alabama ‘Reform School’

y the time Josie Duffy Rice graduated from Harvard Law School, she knew she didn’t want to be a lawyer. Instead, she became a journalist sitting at the intersection of politics and the criminal legal system. Her latest story——is a podcast delving into Mt. Meigs, a staterun institution where black children suffered “physical and sexual violence, unlivable facilities, and grueling labor in the fields’s Billy Binion interviewed Duffy Rice by phone.

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