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Prison Weight Lifting is a Nonsense Issue
Loaded on March 15, 1995
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1995, page 17
Across the country Republicans have seized on prison weigh-lifting as a no risk political "issue" to make big hoopla over. The corporate media has abetted this by running sensationalist stories of prisoners bulking up by pumping iron. So far Mississippi and Wisconsin have banned weights in prison. The California legislature …
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Conditions of Confinement,
Exercise,
State Legislation.
Location:
United States of America.
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