Loaded on
Feb. 15, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2025, page 19
The United States Navy exonerated 256 former prisoners on July 17, 2024, all of them Black sailors convicted of refusing to return to work after a deadly 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago naval weapons station in San Francisco.
On the night of July 17, 1944, some 3.5 million armaments …