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Hungry for Justice in L.A. Jail
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1996, page 4
More than 50 detainees at the Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles participated in a hunger strike, protesting a lack of legal reference materials and law library access, in August 1996. The hunger strike appears to have been confined to one section of the jail. Of the 74 men detained …
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