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Suspect Peppers in LA
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1996
by Clay Huff
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1996, page 6
I was reading through a few old PLNs and ran across an article on page 11, Vol. 5, No. 10, (Oct. 1994) concerning pepper gas [spray].
Filed under:
Prison Labor,
Pepper Spray/Tear Gas,
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Row.
Location:
Louisiana.
In 1992 prisoners here at Angola [LA] bucked work call after one section [of prisoner workers] was ordered to build the death gurney to …
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