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Released due to COVID, this 76-yr-old was sent back to prison for missing phone call during class - Face2Face Africa

Gwen Levi was one of the 4,500 federal prisoners who were released from prison and sent to home confinement last year to protect them from contracting the coronavirus. Levi had served 16 years in different federal facilities for dealing heroin and was allowed to leave last June and complete her 24-year sentence in home confinement...

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