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Strangeways 1990: A Serious Disturbance
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1995
by Reviewed by Bowden, John
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1995, page 9
Review by John Bowden>On 1 April 1990, the British prison system was shaken to its very foundations by an uprising of prisoners at Strangeways in Manchester; an uprising so prolonged and visible that it acted as a catalyst for wider prisoner unrest throughout the system and a focus for ...
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