Articles by Sara Mayeux
- Rhode Island mayor: Prisoners count as residents when it helps me, not when it helps them
Mayor sings one tune when the prison miscount benefits the town, and another when a 2nd grader wants to attend school where her father is locked up.
Mar 31, 2010
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