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Alabama Prison Chief Fired over Women in Chains

Loaded on July 15, 1996 published in Prison Legal News July, 1996, page 7
Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Work, Prison Labor, Chain Gangs. Location: Michigan.
Alabama's prison commissioner, Ron Jones, was abruptly fired on April 26th after announcing plans to put female prisoners on chain gangs. Jones had ordered the warden at Julia Tutwiler State Prison for Women to develop the chain-gang policy. He said the plan was in reaction to male prisoners who had ...

 

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