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WY Trailer Visits Taken
Loaded on May 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1995, page 16
Wyoming penitentiary warden, Duane Shillinger, issued a memorandum to "All Inmates" notifying them that the "Family Visiting Center" would be closed effective April 1, 1995. The warden said he regrets making this difficult decision. The reasons stated in the memo for terminating the trailer visit program are "times and conditions …
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