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Pepper Spray Uprising in Arkansas
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1997, page 21
Wrightsville Arkansas, prison farm labor camp, July, 1997. The sweltering daytime temperature tops 100 degrees. It's still more than 80 degrees just after midnight. And then a spark is lit.
Filed under:
Prison Rebellion,
Pepper Spray/Tear Gas,
Guards/Staff,
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
Arizona.
A guard at the Arkansas DOC Wrightsville Unit, reportedly acting on a tip, went into one of the 50-man barracks ...
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