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Folsom New Year's Riot Over Haircut Policy
Loaded on April 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1998, page 9
by W. Wisely Over 1,000 prisoners at California's medium security Folsom prison threw flaming toilet paper and sheets over the tiers, banged cell doors, and refused to eat on New Year's Day in protest over new grooming restrictions the Department of Corrections plans to implement.
According to a Mexican-American man ...
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