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Forced Labor for Arizona Death Row Prisoners
Loaded on March 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1996, page 14
On November 22, 1995, a memo was distributed to Arizona's 119 death row prisoners. The memo relays an order issued by DOC chief Sam Lewis. It states in part: "Arizona Revised Statute 31-151 gives the Director of Corrections authority to require that each able bodied prisoner in the department engage …
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