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d_r

(6,908 posts) Thu Jan 3, 2013, 11:39 PM Jan 2013

OK I found a 12-year old Steubenville

I'm sure a lot of this is fiction - there are not guilty people in prison you know - but it is fascinating that it must have had some grounding in reality that things there have been whacked for a while-

http://www.innocentinmates.org/koniski/stat1.html

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OK I found a 12-year old Steubenville (Original Post) d_r Jan 2013 OP

Steubenville has a long history of police corruption. I remember doc03 Jan 2013 #1

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1. Steubenville has a long history of police corruption. I remember

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Thu Jan 3, 2013, 11:54 PM

Jan 2013

President Eisenhower talking about the corruption in Steubenville back around 1960, I believe he sent federal marshals in to try and clean it up.

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