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Resistance at Pelican Bay Gulag
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1991, page 8
Resistance At Pelican Bay Gulag
Filed under:
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
California.
Greetings from the Control Unit in California's Pelican Bay state prison. I am litigating a civil rights act lawsuit 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983, due to being forcibly double celled here. The case is Fetters v. Marshall, N.D. Cal. Case No. C-91 -0633. Correctional personnel here …
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- The Rich Get Richer
- Prisoners Are Entitled to Recovery For Underpayment of Wages, by Mark Cook
- Women Prisoners Entitled to Equal Education
- The Class Implications of Prisoner Rights Litigation, by Ed Mead
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- Prison/Community Alliance Update, by Carrie Roth
- Editorial, by Ed Mead
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- State and Federal SRA Parole Systems Similar
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