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Blocking the Transmission of Violence

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

May 4, 2008 Blocking the Transmission of Violence By ALEX KOTLOWITZ NY Times Magazine LAST SUMMER, MARTIN TORRES WAS WORKING AS A COOK IN AUSTIN, Tex., when, on the morning of Aug. 23, he received a call from a relative. His 17-year-old nephew, Emilio, had been murdered. According to the police, Emilio was walking down a street on Chicago?s South Side when someone shot him in the chest, possibly the culmination of an ongoing dispute. Like many killings, Emilio?s received just a few sentences in the local newspapers. Torres, who was especially close to his nephew, got on the first Greyhound bus to Chicago. He was grieving and plotting retribution. ?I thought, Man, I?m going to take care of business,? he told me recently. ?That?s how I live. I was going hunting...continue to full post

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