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‘They are somebody’: Family members, advocates push for parole bill that would give longtime prisoners a second chance at life

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“These guys are lawyers, professors, doctors, therapists, they’re not just people that are incarcerated,” Jones said. “They are somebody. All of them are somebody, you know, and it’s time for us to give them an opportunity to be somebody.”

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