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Challenging Evil That Ills This Society
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1996
by Ed Kinane
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1996, page 14
The September 1995 New York State Prison Strike
Filed under:
Organizing,
Prison Rebellion,
Work Strikes,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Overcrowding,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Good Time.
Location:
New York.
[The following is reprinted from Peace Newsletter, 3/96.]
Musaa has served 13 years of a 20 year sentence in the NYS penal system. He has earned three degrees with an emphasis on political science and social critique. Until last fall Musaa was ...
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- BOP Phone Suit Settled, by Paul Wright
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- NSP Double Celling Order Vacated
- Supreme Court Closes Double Jeopardy Door, by Jeffrey Steinborn
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More from Ed Kinane:
- Challenging Evil That Ills This Society, Sept. 15, 1996
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