‘Hot Convict’ Jeremy Meeks Planning Modeling Career After Prison
He’s going from prison time to SHOWTIME! – Meeks may even try his hand at acting for “a show like ‘Sons of Anarchy.’”
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He’s going from prison time to SHOWTIME! – Meeks may even try his hand at acting for “a show like ‘Sons of Anarchy.’”
The country’s largest state university system says it doesn’t discriminate against former prison inmates. Applicants say otherwise. Read the whole story at The Marshall Project
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