After serving a year and two months for a probation violation, Landreaux Yantz should have been able to walk out of a New York state prison last June. But officials…
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Christie Thompson is a staff writer. Thompson covered prisons, drug policy, mental health, and other criminal justice issues as an investigative reporter for ThinkProgress and as an intern at ProPublica. Her work has been published by The Nation, WNYC, TheAtlantic.com, the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, and The Chicago Reporter.
