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Warehouses of Misery
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1990
by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1990, page 7
By Wm. Daniel Ravenscroft, esq. What has our prison system really come to? Nothing more than a giant machine gobbling up human beings then spitting them out without the slightest concern for the collateral consequences.
The California prison system has over 90,000 inmates and the rate of incarceration and recidivism …
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- Florida Corruption
- Fully Informed Jury Amendment
- Editorial Comments, by Ed Mead
- Prisoners' 1983, by JD Enquist
- Authority, by JD Enquist
- Digital Probe Costs Nevada $4,000
- Full Due Process Required Before Termination of Work Release Status
- Long-term Negligence Might State a Deliberate Indifference Claim
- Severe Injury Not Required for Damage Claim Against Guards for Assault
- Transsexual Wins Hormones Case
- Free Supreme Court Opinions
- Reviews, by Paul Wright
- A Mother's Story, by Shirley Dicks
- Warehouses of Misery, by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft
- Lines in the Sand, by Paul Wright
- The Initiative Process, by M R
- Let's Get Educated, by M Bottom
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