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Justice for Jimmy Haynes?
Justice For Jimmy Haynes?? ?
By John Perotti
On February 9, 1984, Jimmy Haynes, a black prisoner, was beaten and then murdered by 12 white guards at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) al Lucasville, Ohio. The cause of death was a crushed windpipe after one guard held a PR-24 ...
By John Perotti
On February 9, 1984, Jimmy Haynes, a black prisoner, was beaten and then murdered by 12 white guards at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) al Lucasville, Ohio. The cause of death was a crushed windpipe after one guard held a PR-24 ...
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- The United States Supreme Court: Petition for Writ of Certiori, by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft
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- California Prison Construction, by Ruth Cashmere
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- Ohio Update, Feb. 15, 1996
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- Lucasville 1994 "Spilt Milk", Jan. 15, 1995
- Repression Ohio Style, June 15, 1994
- Book Review: Subpoena George Bush - The Anatomy of a Cover Up, May 15, 1994
- Ohio Targets Activists as "Gang Members", April 15, 1994
- What's Wrong in the Ohio DOC?, Feb. 15, 1994
- Lucasville: A Brief History, Dec. 15, 1993
- Family Visiting Info Wanted, Dec. 15, 1993
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