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Lead Poisoning
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1993
by Ronald Wren
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1993, page 4
by Ronald Ronniel Wren
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Toxic Fumes/Chemicals,
Plumbing,
Water.
Location:
United States of America.
There is no proper way to explain how vital "lead poisoning" is without causing alarm. I am writing this in the hopes that prisoner advocates will step forward and explore the lead poisoning problem in the institutions in which they are presently incarcerated. If there are …
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- Retaliation for Legal Action States Claim
- Prison Medical Treatment Law Explained
- Damages Awarded to Paraplegic Prisoner
- Lead Poisoning, by Ronald Wren
- Segregation of HIV+ Prisoners Upheld, Again
- Washington Civil Commitment Law Upheld
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- Bullet Smuggling Guard Sentenced
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- A Call for an Investigation of the U.S. Parole Commission, by Elton Winchester
- Cop's Perjury Conviction Upheld
- Prosecutorial Liability Explained
- Threat States 8th Amendment Claim
- Qualified Immunity for Black Box
- Family Visiting Info Wanted, by John Perotti
- TB Test Info Needed, by Milton Pacheco
- Corruption at McNeil Island
- Ex Post Facto Conflict Within Ninth Circuit
- No Right to Unmonitored Mail to Media, Clergy
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- Lead Poisoning, Dec. 15, 1993
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