“Last spring, as local officials were taking a closer look at the thousands of inmates in the Harris County Jail, they discovered something shocking: a man who had been locked up for 18 years without a trial,” the Houston Chronicle reports.
Houston Man Jailed for 18 Years Without a Trial
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