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Clallam Bay Gets Computer Phones
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1990, page 1
Starting on August 8th, prisoners at C.B.C.C. were treated to a new phone service, one run by a computer. You pick up the phone ant the machine asks for your name and the number you want to call. It hen dials the number and tells the person at the other …
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- Mission of SOC To Change
- Walls Gets "Special Needs Unit", by Mark LaRue
- Clallam Bay Gets Computer Phones
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Use of Jailhouse Informants Faulted
- Prisoners Can't Be Punished for Refusing to Perform Unconstitutional Assignment
- Government Spending for Civil, Criminal Justice Reached $61 Billion in 1988
- Police Torture in Ohio
- Free Tim Anderson
- The Ultimate Hunt
- Private Gulags in England, by Mike Vukasinovic
- Death Row Abolished, by Mark LaRue
- It Costs Too Much and It Does Not Work, by Ed Mead
- Letters From Readers
- Russian Prisoners Revolting
- What's Wrong With This Picture?
- Judicial Highpoints
- Prisoners on Purpose
- Women in Prison
- Prison Resources, by Paul Wright
- Expression, by V Martinez
- Wetmore v. Gardner
- BOP Hotline
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