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The New and Improved Marion
Loaded on March 15, 1991
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1991, page 8
By Paul Wright
Filed under:
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Illinois.
As we were preparing this issue of PLN we received several articles describing the horrible conditions of control units in Florida, New Jersey and Marion, Illinois. Most Washington prisoners are familiar with the local version of this phenomenon: the Intensive Management Units (IMU). What these types of …
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More from this issue:
- Sex Offender "Treatment" in Washington State, In Whose Best Interest?, by Dan Pens
- Review: A Saga of Shame
- Loss of Legal Materials States Claim for Denial of Access To The Courts
- Disclosure of AIDS Condition Violates Right to Privacy
- Treatment Effective Against Drug Use
- Avenue to Attack Habitual Criminal Conviction
- Getting Tough Approach To Crime Fails to Produce Results, by Ed Mead
- Toward Creating a More Equal Sentencing System
- Editorial, by Ed Mead
- Prison Discipline Study
- U.S. Now Has World's Highest Incarceration Rate
- The New and Improved Marion, by Paul Wright
- Letters From Readers
- Will The Racists Please Stand Up?, by Paul Wright
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