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Just Say "No?"
by Philip McLaughlin
We are reprinting the following article because we think our readers will be interested in knowing about the forced drugging of prisoners. The legal background for this is that in 1989 the Washington state supreme court decided Washington v. Harper which held that before prisoners could …
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More from this issue:
- 9th Circuit Affirms Court Access Case
- No Immunity for Cold Filthy Cell
- MO Hair Cut Rule Violates RFRA
- Turner Applied to Rehabilitation Act Claims
- Excessive Force Jury Instructions Affirmed
- Pen, Photocopies and Exercise Must Be Provided
- Retaliatory Infractions Illegal
- WA Powell Update, by John Midgley
- Delay in Hearing States Claim
- Bye Bye Mike
- VA Guards Indicted in Beatings
- WA Prisoners Protest HB 2010
- DOJ Issues Guidelines for Seizing and Searching Computers
- AZ DOC Takes Weights
- VA Jails Sue State Prisons
- DOJ Sues MT DOC
- Winds of Unrest Blowing Over Arizona, by Rainman
- Grand Jury Slams FL Prison, Again, by Paul Wright
- Prison TV: Aid and Comfort to the Enemy, by Adrian Lomax
- Just Say "No?", by Phillip McLaughlin
- The New Politics of Crime, by Dan Pens
- Grievance Policy Modified
- Attention Prisoners Convicted of Drug Offenses!
- News in Brief
- Forfeiture and Double Jeopardy, by Jeffrey Steinborn
- New Habeas Book
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Two Strikes and You're Out - of Prison Space
- True Lies in Philly
- The Last Mile, by Johnny "Byrd Dog" Byrd
- Gangs in OH, by Reader Mail
- Trailer Visits Curtailed at CBCC, by Reader Mail
More from Phillip McLaughlin:
- Just Say "No?", June 15, 1995
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