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Passin' Gas
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1991
by Clark Stuhr
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1991, page 9
Here at the Washington State Penitentiary's Intensive Management Unit (IMU) there is no end to the mental and physical torture being inflicted upon the inmates. The latest of which are the new use of force tactics being used by IMU staff since the placing of mentally ill inmates in IMU. …
Filed under:
Cell Searches,
Pepper Spray/Tear Gas,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Washington.
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- Washington Supreme Court Rules on Lifers, by John Midgley
- Caging America: The U.S. Imprisonment Binge, by Patricia Horn
- Prison System Increases Cell Integration to Avoid Fines
- Abuses Continue at Ansar 3
- Pig Park Update
- Unlawful Orders Cannot Be Enforced With Violence
- Privacy Right Not To Be Viewed Naked by Opposite Sex Prison Guards
- Right to Practice Religious Beliefs
- Due Process Distinguished
- Attention Former PAP Members, by Jane Kuja
- Reviews
- Prison Guards: Victims or Villains?, by Paul Wright
- Universal Suffrage: Give Us A Voice!, by Tom Sparks
- Sheriff Can't Release AIDS Test Results
- Violent Crime Rate Up, Again
- Editorial, by Ed Mead
- Can't Search Visitor Leaving Prison
- No Minimum Wages for Convicts
- Search of Legal Files Violates Consent Decree
- Mandatory Sentencing Flops in Florida
- Passin' Gas, by Clark Stuhr
- Letter from Germany
- Pelican Bay News
- Info on Free
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- Walla Walla IMU Stops Using Fire Hoses, Jan. 15, 1991
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