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John Huckleberry sits in the back seat of a friend's car on the way back from visiting inmates at Sterling Correctional Facility. After 30 years in prison, Huckleberry — who was released in 2012 — helps aging inmates prepare for life outside prison. John W. Poole/NPR hide caption

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NPR News Investigations

Life After 'Life': Aging Inmates Struggle For Redemption

A Colorado program for long-term offenders helps a group of aging ex-cons as they attempt to make their way in a fast-paced world and rejoin a society that is not sure they deserve that chance.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford covers his nose from the smell of dead bodies during a visit to a mass grave in the country in 2011. Ford has criticized the U.S. failure to back opposition forces early on. Bassem Tellawi/AP hide caption

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Ex-Ambassador To Syria: Civil War Could Drag On For Years

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John Huckleberry sits in the back seat of a friend's car on the way back from visiting inmates at Sterling Correctional Facility. After 30 years in prison, Huckleberry — who was released in 2012 — helps aging inmates prepare for life outside prison. John W. Poole/NPR hide caption

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Investigations

Life After 'Life': Aging Inmates Struggle For Redemption

12 min

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Close-up of a star coral rescued by Coral Morphologic from a reef in Miami's shipping channel. Courtesy of Coral Morphologic hide caption

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An Underwater Race To Transplant Miami's Rare Corals

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Mark, a California minister, says the day he was first shut out of all treatment discussions regarding his mentally ill teenage son "was the first time we really started to feel hopeless." Jenny Gold/Kaiser Health News hide caption

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Shots - Health News

Privacy Law Frustrates Parents Of Mentally Ill Adult Children

5 min

Privacy Law Frustrates Parents Of Mentally Ill Adult Children

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George Clinton emerges from Parliament-Funkadelic's Mothership on June 4, 1977, at the Coliseum in Los Angeles. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images hide caption

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Music News

Well, All Right, Starchild, The Mothership Is Back

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Well, All Right, Starchild, The Mothership Is Back

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