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A late-stage cancer diagnosis left Bradford Gamble with a difficult decision: Receive treatment in a Pennsylvania state prison or die on the outside.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: The opportunity to apply for emergency housing assistance from Allegheny County and Pittsburgh ends today; state laws allow some incarcerated people who become terminally ill to qualify for compassionate release, but Spotlight PA’s Danielle Ohl explains why that process has been called "broken"; and a nonprofit in Carrick is teaching teenagers how to use audio equipment and technology for a career in production.
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Pennsylvania lawmakers, prison reform advocates seek to expand eligibility for compassionate releaseA bipartisan group of state legislators and prison reform activists gathered downtown Friday in support of a bill to expand Pennsylvania’s compassionate release program.
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Leon Jesse James was supposed to die in prison.As a convicted murderer, Pennsylvania gave him no possibility of parole, meaning he’d spend nearly his…