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Damages Awarded in Beating Case
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1993, page 9
Rickke Greene is an Oklahoma state prisoner. While in a segregation unit Greene was scalded by another prisoner and received second degree burns. After not being treated at the prison infirmary he was returned to his cell, knocked to the floor, kicked and beaten by guards while still handcuffed. At …
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- Serial Litigators, by Adrian Lomax
- The Prison Privatization Debate, by Ed Mead
- BOP Agency for APA Purposes
- Pre-Trial Detainees Don't Have to Work
- Access to Courts Right Explained
- Sundiata Acoli Needs Letters
- Temp Workers Come to Prison
- Publication Reviews: Nationalist Struggles, by Ed Mead
- Criminal Justice Statistics, by Ed Mead
- States Must Furnish Equivalent of Jailhouse Lawyers for Filing Prisoner Complaint
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Freedom for Gerhard Bogelein
- Letter from Exile, by Ray Luc Levasseur
- Religious Standards Applied
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- Retrial for Damages Alone Appropriate
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