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Prisoner Unrest in Georgia
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1994
by GA Prisoner, Anonymous
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1994, page 14
By A Georgia ReaderOn Sunday, June 19, 1994, prisoners at Hancock Correctional Institution in Sparta, Georgia revolted in one of the worst prison riots in Georgia history. Damages were estimated at over one million dollars. Establishment media reports erroneously blamed the disturbance on "faulty showers". In fact, captors at …
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