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There’s an oasis behind the house — situated on a 1.1-acre lot — a yard, greenery, a brick sidewalk and all.

About 50 protesters gathered in Memphis, in the southern United States, demanding justice after a video was released showing police violently arresting Tyre Nichols, a young Black man who died a few days after the incident.

About 50 protesters gathered Friday night in Memphis, in the southern United States, demanding justice after a video was released showing police violently arresting Tyre Nichols, a young Black man who died a few days after the incident

Five police officers have been charged with second-degree murder in the beating of the 29-year-old, who died in a Memphis hospital

When visitors embark for Alcatraz, the island site of an infamous prison in San Francisco Bay, their moods are generally high. They're tourists, after all — they get a boat ride and a museum visit, and they may be fresh from the carnival atmosphere of Fisherman's Wharf, from which the ferry sets off. But on the return trip, they're often somber and sunk in moody contemplation.

Touring former prisons can provide insight into the changing and unchanging life of incarceration.