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Prison decks give new meaning to ‘face cards’

Since prisoners have a lot of time on their hands for card games, the hope is that they may recognize a face from the ‘unsolved’ murders card decks and provide the missing piece of information that could solve a crime

By Dan Barry  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA

“I’m tired of seeing James,” says a man hunched around a hand he’s just been dealt.

James is James Oneal Boulware, shot to death in Rock Hill a couple of years ago. The two of spades.

James and 51 others are soon shuffled and spun across tables to form new combinations of faint possibility. Read ‘em and weep.

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