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Phone Activist Seeks Info
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1996, page 10
In late 1994 I asked you to publish a request for information regarding prisoners whose friends and families have had to pay for collect calls which the prisoners didn't make.I received several replies, and ended up maintaining correspondence with one prisoner. With his help I filed suit in federal …
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