Stories That Should Never Go Away, VI

From our dear friend Janine Anderson: I had no idea this story existed until the 2009 Mike Levine Workshop, when Ben and a few others from the Times Herald-Record brought it up after Pete Hamill spoke at the Eddie Adams barn. At the time, I covered courts in a community that struggled with the same poverty-gangs-drugs-crime-violence-murder cycle as Newburgh. And I struggled with how to keep the community narrative a part of quick-hit stories on people getting charged, tried and sent to prison.
After returning from the Workshop, I went to the library and put in a loan request for the article.
It does what few daily crime stories do — puts you on the streets, in the middle of the battle. The…