mother said, “Please take care of the
boy.” Assuming she meant her
critically ill son, the officer replied,
“The ambulance people and doctor
will do the best they can. The rest is
up to God.” The mother pointed to the
suspect in the back of the police car.
“I mean the driver. We forgive him.”
9 Williams was released a few years
later after a judge reduced his sentence,
and his case became the rallying cry for
the anti–Three Strikes movement.
10 By the mid-1990s, the IRA was
organizing daily bus trips to the prison
outside Belfast, as if it were an
amusement park. “Almost everyone in
the Catholic ghettos has a father, brother,
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