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Dallas News on 2017-10-23 12:04

Rebuilding after prison: Texas has spent $109 million on the wrongfully convicted

AUSTIN — Nine years ago, Christopher Scott was sitting in a prison cell, serving a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit, praying that...

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