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Mack Blackie (center) with William Grover and his wife, Veronica Higbie, outside the Garrahy Judicial Complex, Providence, R.I., in February 2023. The couple helped to exonerate Blackie.

Why was Mack Blackie held for 31 days for someone else’s crime?

by Lynn Arditi March 2, 2023February 20, 2024

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Civil rights advocates are calling for an investigation into how Woonsocket police wound up arresting and incarcerating a 35-year-old homeless Liberian immigrant for another man’s crime.

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