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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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- How to Secure the Attendance of Witnesses at Trial, by Paul Wright
- Ninth Circuit Upholds Ban on Attorney Contact Visits
- Murder Incorporated, by Bill Dunne
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- California DOC Starts Use of Electric Fence
- Shackling of Con Litigants Discussed
- Reviews, by Paul Wright
- Estate Proper Party When Defendant Dies
- Officials Must Assess Informant's Credibility
- Delay of Medical Care States Claim
- Prisoner Entitled to Interest From Prison Account
- Loved One in Prison?
- No Right to TV Interviews
- More Censorship and Repression in Indiana
- Twenty-Seven Cons Die in El Salvador Riot
- Class Differences in Crime Control, by Ed Mead
- What's Wrong in the Ohio DOC?, by John Perotti
- City Liable for Negligent Medical Care
- Involuntary PC Violates Due Process
- WA DOC Wants to Open New Prison, Close Old Ones
- Attorneys File Briefs for Peruvian POW's, by Paul Wright
- Third Circuit Announces Rules for Appointment of Counsel
- Rule of Law or Rule of Five?, by Mark Tushnet
- Court Upholds Silencing of Dan Quayle's Drug Supplier
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
More from John Perotti:
- In Memory - Reverends Ernest Bromley and Maurice McCrackin, April 15, 1998
- 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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