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By Jennifer Carnig, New York Civil Liberties Union at 3:05pm
Every day, in courtrooms throughout the state, New Yorkers are denied justice simply because they are poor. Ricky Lee Glover, a homeless Syracuse man, languished in jail for seven months without bail after he was accused of stealing copper pipes from an abandoned public housing complex. Though he knew nothing about the law
