1) Mississippi's forensics department is f-ed.
2) Bush's choice for Tennessee's federal trial court judge is general counsel for the nation's largest private prison corporation. So everybody sentenced is a potential profit-maker for his former employer. And he's not even qualified.
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Adam Doster, a contributing editor at In These Times, is a Chicago-based freelance writer and former reporter-blogger for Progress Illinois.