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Three Murders in Three Months at Mississippi Control Unit Lead to Improvements And New Consent Decree
Loaded on April 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2008, page 22
"Taken as a whole, I am convinced the conditions in Unit 32 are as bad as anywhere in the whole country," observed Margaret Winter, a lawyer with the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Unit 32 is otherwise known as the supermax at Mississippi's State Penitentiary ...
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