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Prison TV: Luxury or Management Tool?
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1994
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1994, page 14
By Paul Wright
Filed under:
Organizing,
Prisoner Privileges.
Locations:
Michigan,
New York,
Washington,
United States of America.
In March 1994, the Florida state legislature passed a law severely restricting how the DOC could spend prisoner welfare funds. It specifically prohibited the expenditure of welfare funds for cable television, to rent movie videos, televisions, VCRs or purchase other electronic entertainment equipment for prisoners. The law ...
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