Between justice and the reality of incarceration

It was my mother’s birthday, May 27, 2023, when someone carelessly opened fire in a gas station in Auburn Gresham at 79th and Ashland. After the smoke cleared, an elderly woman of 69—my cousin Gale Stephens—was found dead inside her car from a gunshot wound to her chest.  She had just dropped her granddaughter off […]
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