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In the place of justice [a story of punishment and deliverance]
Here is the remarkable life of Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in Louisiana prisons, worked against unimaginable odds to redeem himself, exposed a profoundly corrupt penal system, and fought to reform it. After killing a woman in a moment of panic duringa bank robbery, nineteen-year-old Rideau was improperly sentenced to death--a sentence later amended to life in the infamous Angola penitentiary ...
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- "Here is the remarkable life of Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in Louisiana prisons, worked against unimaginable odds to redeem himself, exposed a profoundly corrupt penal system, and fought to reform it. After killing a woman in a moment of panic duringa bank robbery, nineteen-year-old Rideau was improperly sentenced to death--a sentence later amended to life in the infamous Angola penitentiary ..."@en
- "The author tells of his murder conviction, incarceration at the infamous Angola penitentiary, and editorship of the prison's inmate newspaper, which became instrumental in reforming abuses in the corrupt Louisiana criminal justice system."
- "The author tells of his murder conviction, incarceration at the infamous Angola penitentiary, and editorship of the prison's inmate newspaper, which became instrumental in reforming abuses in the corrupt Louisiana criminal justice system."@en
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