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56-year-old Texas grandma gets life without parole on first-time drug charges

In Fort Worth, Texas, Elisa Castillo—a 56-year-old grandmother with no prior drug offenses— has been sentenced to life without parole. She maintains her innocence, and never “touched the drugs that sent her to prison,” points out the ACLU; “Her fate was sealed, in large part because she didn’t have a card to play when negotiating her sentence.” The Houston Chronicle has more.

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