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No Right to Forfeit Goodtime
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1993, page 4
Helen Woodson was a federal prisoner serving twelve years on four counts of destroying government property arising out of protests at ICBM missile sites. She is a member of the Plowshares, a Christian group that takes literally the bible's command to beat swords into plowshares (i.e., they enter military bases …
Filed under:
Political Prisoners,
Disciplinary Hearings,
Liberty Interests,
Good Time.
Location:
Washington.
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