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Suit Filed Over Conditions at Virgin Islands Criminal Justice Complex
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1994, page 9
For almost two years, prisoners at Criminal Justice Complex have been locked up for 23 hours a day in overcrowded, filthy, rat and roach infested cells. They are only allowed out for a short period each day to shower and for an hour of recreation twice a week. Cells designed …
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