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But i minimize that. But i think the question you asked, i mean, most miraculous about the whole thing is not that something didnt go wrong, thats pretty miraculous, but that nobody challenged it. Yes. I mean, the only challenge came because i took the position that if the pardons hadnt been delivered, they couldnt i said lock the prison door, dont let anybody out. Roger humphreys got out because that was earlier in the week, but the rest of them didnt. They sued, and they got out because the courts eventually held that once the governor issues the pardon or commutation, thats it. And for those of you who dont know who Roger Humphreys was, please read the book. It is, that is keel, you captured the drama of that story. I mean, its a stunning story. Lee smith was part of it. Frank sutherland had his hand on it. Keel, with a story that has this much detail as you have in your book, you had to encounter factual conflicts. What was t ....
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The true story of Marie Ragghianti is one of those lives they ought to make a movie about, and this time they did. Marie was a young Tennessee woman who broke out of a marriage with a wife-beater and somehow managed to put herself through school while raising her kids, including a chronically ill little boy. Then she got involved on the edges of the state political world, caught the eye of an assistant to the governor, was given a state job, and worked her way up to head of the state parole board. Advertisement If the story ended there, however, it probably wouldn t have made a movie. What makes Marie s story extraordinary is that she discovered corruption in the parole system, and she blew the whistle on the grafters. As a result of her testimony, a Tennessee governor and other officials were sentenced to the very prisons they sought to control. ....