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Standard curation plus moved contributor keywords to 2nd Description Field. Added Arizona State University as Institutional Affiliation. Added to the Incarceration Collection. Left item private for review by Erin Craft. 07/27/2020
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07/24/2020Philip Melendez Oral History, 2020/07/24
Philip Melendez was born and raised in Sacramento, California. His interactions with the police began in high school. He later committed a crime and served almost twenty years in prison. He was released from prison a few years ago and now works for Restore Justice, a California based non-profit, focused on criminal justice reform. Now married, with three grown children, he discusses his thoughts on the criminal justice system, reform, and the impact of COVID-19 on the incarcerated population within the United States, specifically California. (Note there is about two minutes of empty recording at the beginning of the Mp4 file.)