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From the Editor
Loaded on Dec. 30, 2015
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2016, page 20
Filed under:
Editorials.
Location:
United States of America.
From the Editor
by Paul Wright
Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2016 as we enter our 26th year of continuous publishing. This month’s cover story about the rise of mass incarceration is something of a road map to how we got to where we are now. To ...
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