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Dear Reader,

In my latest article on InTheseTimes.com, I wrote about Flozelle Woodmore, a battered woman who has been imprisoned in the Central California Womenגs Facility her entire adult life and wrongfully denied the parole she was promised for the past six years.

Without this kind of media exposure, Flozelles story might not have had a happy ending. Coverage in outlets like In These Times helped put public pressure on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger--and Flozelle was finally pardoned on August 6, 2007.

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