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Reply to: Guards, Victims or Villains?
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1992, page 9
I've sent for a copy of the September 1991 issue of "Blueprint for Social Justice" and read both articles in it as you suggested. While the authors of these articles divulged some good points concerning the behavior of prison guards, their superiors and the psychology of prisondom, I think that …
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