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Georgia Prisons Enter Dark Ages
Loaded on April 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1996, page 13
According to a PLN reader in Georgia, "Our ex-[Prisons] Commissioner, Dr. Allen Ault, got into a battle with Zig-Zag Zell Miller [Georgia's Governor]. Miller ordered him to cut-off TV's and phones during the day, cut the phone time to 10-minutes per call, and take out the weights. Ault quit, then ...
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