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News & Politics, Feature May 24, 2018
Hundreds of Illinois prisoners languish behind bars waiting for Dorothy Brown to do her job

The court clerk lost the records of James Allen, who's fighting to overturn convictions that put him in prison 30 years ago. His case is not unique.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, james allen, chicago police, cook county, circuit court of cook county, dorothy brown, pontiac correctional center, tamms, carl gibson, robert ciralski, hyde park, richard m. daley, nocholas ford, illinois supreme court, steven becker, office of the state appellate defender, cicero, patricia mysza, jalyne strong-shaw, records storage center, larry gibson, tyrone oby, washington park, oliver singleton, ged, people's law office, illinois prisoner review board, jeffrey haas, national conference of black lawyers community college of law, charles ashley, michael pochordo, chicago skyway, willie "flukey" stokes, franklin freeman, darryl moore, uptown, better government association, alan goldberg, toni preckwinkle, records storage and digital imaging center, mississippi

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Nov 5, 2009
Fall Books Special: The Night Fred Hampton Died

An excerpt of a new book on the Black Panther leader's death and its aftermath by People's Law Office cofounder Jeffrey Haas
- By Jeffrey Haas
- Tags: Lit Feature, Fred Hampton, Black Panthers, Vietnam, People's Law Office, Mark Clark, Cook County State's Attorney, PLO, Bernardine Dohrn, The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther, Proviso East, Merritt College, Bobby Seale, NAACP Youth Chapter, Bill Ivory, Key Agitator Index, Bobby Rush, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Breakfast for Children Program, Doc Satchel, Black P. Stone Nation, Blackstone Rangers, Deborah Johnson, Skip Andrew, Edward Hanrahan

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