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Chanell Burnette

A Black mother in prison exposes the greed and hypocrisy of the system that keeps her behind bars and rips apart families.
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Only Mercy

by Chanell Burnette June 27, 2023November 13, 2023

A Black mother exposes the greed and hypocrisy of the system that keeps her behind bars. "Though my children have grown up to be extraordinary young men, in society's eyes, they will always be statistics. We are much more than society's labels."

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