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U.S. Prisons Accused of Human Rights Abuses
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1992, page 6
An international human-rights group recently charged that the U.S. prison authorities are engaging in "numerous human-rights abuses" through the increasing use of " super maximum security" prisons modeled after the federal prison in Marion, Ill. Condemning what it called the "Marionization" of the nation's prison system, Human Rights Watch said …
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