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Rehabilitation or Corporate Profit
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1998, page 4
Peaceful efforts, by Alaskan prisoners, on August 30, 1998, to address grievances and concerns repeatedly ignored at the Central Arizona Detention Center, in Florence, Arizona, were mercilessly squashed following a sit down demonstration in the prison exercise yard.
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Organizing,
Prison Rebellion,
Work Strikes,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Locations:
Alaska,
Arizona.
What was initially a peaceful, sit-down demonstration turned ugly when prison officials …
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