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Texas Prison Officials Indicted
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1991, page 3
The manager and bookkeeper at a Texas prison textile mill were indicted April 25 in Huntsville on charges of theft, official misconduct and engaging in organized crime. Authorities said the indictments stemmed from a two-yearlong scheme involving bid rigging and kickbacks on installation and service of prison textile equipment and the theft of commercial textile equipment and parts.From: Corrections Digest
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- The United States Supreme Court: Petition for Writ of Certiori, by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft
- Drug Profits Fund Prison
- Walla Walla 'Lifers With Hope'
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- Texas Prison Officials Indicted
- Mail Rejection Not Upheld
- Informants Must Be Reliable
- Prison Visitors May Not Be Searched Without Probable Cause
- Prisoners Entitled to Exculpatory Evidence In Disciplinary Hearings
- Legal Mail May Not be Read
- Prisoners Must Be Fed
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Magistrates May Hear Prison Cases
- Grievance System Does Not Create Liberty Interest
- Reviews
- Justice for Jimmy Haynes?, by John Perotti
- PLN Banned in France, by Paul Wright
- The Ex Post Facto Clause and Washington's Parole Board, by Ed Mead
- California Prison Construction, by Ruth Cashmere
- Be a Rat or Else!
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