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Amnesty Criticizes OK Control Unit
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1994, page 16
On June 14, 1994, Amnesty International (AI) released a report harshly criticizing the control unit at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP) at McAlester. An AI investigation team toured the prison's H. Unit in March, 1994, and found that some 350 prisoners are held 23 or 24 hours a day in ...
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