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Tahir Duckett
Tahir Duckett is a civil rights attorney at Relman Colfax in Washington, D.C., and a founding executive committee member of Law For Black Lives-DC.
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The Hidden Constitutional Costs of the Carceral System
America’s courts have placed little value on the rights of black people.
Tahir Duckett
June 23, 2020