Jere Krakoff
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Jere Krakoff, a lawyer from Pittsburgh representing the inmates who had brought the lawsuit, was making his first Supreme Court argument. Mr. Krakoff got into a discussion with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. about an exception in Pennsylvania's policy that permits inmates to have religious newspapers and law-related reading matter in their cells. Seeking to summarize as the red light came on to signal that his time was up, Mr. Krakoff observed that some of the hard-core inmates in the special prison unit under discussion would eventually complete their sentences and go back into society.