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Maryland Is on Track to Process a Nearly 50-Year-Old Backlog of Rape Kits
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. One of the country’s oldest backlogs of untested evidence from rape exams is on track to be processed by the end of …