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By Okla Jones ·Updated July 17, 2023
In 1974, when he was only 16 years of age, Gary Tyler was falsely charged with the murder of a white youth in Destrehan, Louisiana, during a racially tense era in the deep South. These events resulted in a 41 ½ year stint in the state’s penitentiary, and the dreams of yet another young man of color, deferred.
While serving his unwarranted sentence at
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