Willie Mae Harris was jailed in 1985, had gone blind in prison and was recommended for parole five times before.
She had been lauded for her work at Wrightsville Women's Facility, southeast of Little Rock, teaching other inmates how to read. During her incarceration, she lost her eyesight after a stroke and is now legally blind.
"This lady has always had the best spirit throughout this whole process of 34 years being incarcerated," she said, adding that when she found out that she would be released,"all I could do was just run outside, run out of my office and just scream." that the fact the parole board had recommended her parole five times and no governor until now agreed to it, showed"how much politics skews public safety decisions."
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