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Bi-Partisan support for Deal’s Prison Reform Initiative

By Chandra Thomas-Whitfield | February 16, 2011

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About Chandra Thomas-Whitfield

Thomas is a 2011 Soros Justice Media Fellow and a former Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow and Kiplinger Public Affairs Journalism Fellow. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist who has worked for Atlanta Magazine and Fox 5 News in Atlanta.

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