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Marion Prison to be Replaced
Loaded on June 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1990, page 3
Marion Prison To Be Replaced
Filed under:
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Illinois.
It's gonna get worse, fellas. A March 30th report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons says the BOP is going to replace the federal prison at Marion, Illinois, with a new maximum-security penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.
Marion was built in the early `60s to …
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