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    Nine Years With No Sunshine

    A glitch in North Carolina law is trapping people for years in unequipped jails.
    by Joseph Neff Jan 23, 2018 3 minutes

    Brandon Hewett wants to go to prison.

    There, he might have a shot at fresh air, sunshine and substance abuse treatment. Instead, the 38-year-old Hewett is serving a nine-year drunk driving sentence in a North Carolina county jail, a facility not designed or equipped for long-term stays.

    Hewett is among a growing number of DWI offenders serving multi-year sentences in North Carolina’s jails, snagged between a reform that cut the prison population and a popular law that cracked down on repeat drunk

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