Showing papers in "New Mexico law review in 2011"
Journal Article•
TL;DR: In this article, the author describes the difficulty of going out and getting a job when released from prison: "When I first came home, I was nervous. I didn't know what I was doing or which road to take."
Abstract: “When I first came home, I was nervous. I didn’t know what I was doing or which road to take. And then [parole] want[s] me to do all these programs, all these appointments and all this other stuff . . . . It makes it even harder for one to be able to go out and get a job. You know when you have to be at an appointment at eight in the morning and they keep you there ’til eleven; then you know, you got a job interview at nine but parole is telling you, this is first, you can’t do nothing about it.”—Paul
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TL;DR: Leslie Ironroad as discussed by the authors was held captive in a bathroom, then beaten and repeatedly raped by a group of men on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota in 2003.
Abstract: In February 2003, twenty-year-old Leslie Ironroad lapsed into a coma and died after being held captive in a bathroom, then beaten and repeatedly raped by a group of men on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Desperate to stop the assault, Ironroad had taken diabetes pills she found in the bathroom’s medicine cabinet, hoping that the men would stop their assault if she became unconscious. Later, from her hospital bed, Ironroad described her attack to a police officer. She named her assailants. She named witnesses to the attack. Black and
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