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PLN Suit Filed Against ISRB
Loaded on July 15, 1994
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1994, page 17
By Paul Wright
Filed under:
Retaliation for Media Contact,
Parole,
Media,
PLN Litigation,
Access to Media,
Censorship.
Location:
Washington.
Readers may recall that former PLN coeditor Ed Mead was released from prison in October, 1993, after serving nearly 18 years in prison. The day after he was released he was required to sign a standard conditions of release document for the Washington state Indeterminate Sentence Review …
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