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What's Wrong in the Ohio DOC?
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1994
by John Perotti
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1994, page 9
It's been almost a year since the end of the siege at Lucasville. During this time investigations have been conducted by the State Legislature, State Highway Patrol and Scioto County Prosecutor's Office. The mass media has focused on "crimes" committed during the riot rather than on the problems which caused …
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Racial Discrimination,
Religious Discrimination,
Overcrowding,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Ohio.
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- Attorneys File Briefs for Peruvian POW's, by Paul Wright
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- Ohio Update, Feb. 15, 1996
- Ohio Activist Needs Help, May 15, 1995
- Lucasville 1994 "Spilt Milk", Jan. 15, 1995
- Repression Ohio Style, June 15, 1994
- Book Review: Subpoena George Bush - The Anatomy of a Cover Up, May 15, 1994
- Ohio Targets Activists as "Gang Members", April 15, 1994
- What's Wrong in the Ohio DOC?, Feb. 15, 1994
- Lucasville: A Brief History, Dec. 15, 1993
- Family Visiting Info Wanted, Dec. 15, 1993
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