A retired White Plains detective, Austin Avery, pursued Oscar Nedd's case until his own death. It turns out he was right about several things.

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But the closures are also the result of the state’s prison-building strategy in the 1980s and ‘90s. Emily Russell spoke with Jacob Harris, a PhD candidate from Cornell University. He published ...