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PLN Writer Exiled by CCA
Loaded on June 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1998, page 16
PLN Writer Exiled by CCA
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Retaliation for Media Contact,
Retaliatory Transfers,
Access to Media,
Censorship.
Location:
Tennessee.
Alex Friedmann is a prisoner and a journalist. Until recently he also warmed a for-profit bunk at the Corrections Corporation of America's (CCA) South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tennessee. That is, until his corporate warders decided that Alex Friedmann presented a threat to the ...
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