Today West Virginia incarcerates four times as many people as our state did 30 years ago. Most of the people in our criminal justice system are poor, and they will be even less likely to find employment with a criminal record. The Appalachian Justice Initiative looks closely at how poverty plays a role in justice in our state, and how to make our criminal justice system more reliable and fair.
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