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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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- Family Visiting Info Wanted, Dec. 15, 1993
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