Late prisons chief was linked to legal precedents boosting defendants' rights
'Louie Wainwright was someone who honestly believed in corrections instead of punishment.'
Source: floridapolitics.com
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'Louie Wainwright was someone who honestly believed in corrections instead of punishment.'
Louie Wainwright, a longtime leader of Florida’s corrections system whose name is on the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright concerning the rights of defendants, died Thursday in Tallahassee.