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Fire Hosing Stopped!
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1990, page 8
Fire Hosing Stopped!!!On July 9, 1990, US District Court Judge Arthur Spiegel entered a preliminary injunction ordering a halt to the practice of Ohio prisoncrats at Lucasville, of firehosing prisoners in their cells. A full trial on the merits will follow.
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