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Exception to Slave Labor
Exception To Slave Labor
I would like to commend the staff of PLN (issue #8) because, in my opinion, it is the best issue yet. I was impressed with the listing of competent authorities for the facts and figures presented in the articles. One thing though that I would like …
I would like to commend the staff of PLN (issue #8) because, in my opinion, it is the best issue yet. I was impressed with the listing of competent authorities for the facts and figures presented in the articles. One thing though that I would like …
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More from this issue:
- The Parole Board Audit Report, by Ed Mead
- No Blood For Oil, by Paul Wright
- Response To "Tread Carefully", by Paul Wright
- Mothers in Prison
- Spending on Corrections Rises Sharply
- Texas Woman Wins $125,000 Settlement
- Station Files Suit to Televise Execution
- Nutraloaf and the Law in the Northwest, by Wasseneh Taddasse
- Florida DOC Officials Harass Women
- New York Report Matches National Study Results
- Some Peruvian Prisoners Released
- Women Prisoner's Hunger Strike in Texas, by Ana Lucia Gelabert
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Prisoner Assaulted by Guard
- X-Ray Searches of Prisoners Found Unlawful
- Prison Officials Liable for Not Correctly Computing Prisoner's Sentence
- Insufficient Facts to Support Exceptional Terms
- Clallam Bay Prisoner Brutalized, by Paul Wright
- Deliberate Indifference Demonstrated
- Habitual Criminal Case Update
- Prison's Water Contaminated, by Ray Luc Levasseur
- Exception to Slave Labor, by D.H. Washington
More from D.H. Washington:
- Exception to Slave Labor, Feb. 15, 1991
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