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Struggling Against the Death Machine
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1998
by Dan Pens
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1998, page 8
Imagine your entire life concentrated within one tiny cage. Twenty-four hours, by seven days, times three-hundred sixty-five. The state of Pennsylvania owns the cage. Everything you own, everything you do, is squeezed into that suffocating space. There is nothing else.
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Prison Rebellion,
Hunger Strikes,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Legal Property,
Prisoner Property,
Death Row,
Visiting,
Attorney Visits.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
The State has vowed to kill you.
Hope enters the ...
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More from this issue:
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- U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Reed
- Zero Tolerance Drug Policy in New Jersey
- Cases of Interest From the U.S. Supreme Court's 1997-98 Term
- Allan Ellis' Federal Prison Guidebook, by Paul Wright
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- The Razor Wire, by Paul Wright
- Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections, by Paul Wright
- Cigarette Health Hazards, by Paul Wright
- Connecticut Prisoner Rights, by Paul Wright
- An End to Silence, by Paul Wright
- Criminal Law, by Paul Wright
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, by John Midgley
- Critical Resistance Conference
- Struggling Against the Death Machine, by Dan Pens
- Whitewash in Greene County, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Fee Payment Orders Not Immediately Appealable
- Administrative Exhaustion
- CA Death Row Decree Ended
- Three Strikes Doesn't Apply to Pending Cases
- Sixth Circuit Requires Administrative Exhaustion
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- Administrative Exhaustion Still Required
- ADA/RA Apply to FL Prison Gain Time Issues; Suit Settled
- ADA Roundup
- ADA and RA Suits Not Barred by 11th Amendment
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- CA ADA/RA Injunction Affirmed
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- Illinois Suing Prisoners for Cost of Incarceration
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- Tennessee Prison Privatization Bill Fails to Pass, by Alex Friedmann
- MI Prison "Fee" Law Preempted by ERISA
- Bivens Action is Not Time Barred When in Compliance With Rule 3
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- Two Year Limitations on Illinois § 1983 Suits
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- $13,501 Jury Award in Seg Case Affirmed; New Trial Denied
- Publications Lawsuit Settled in Alabama, by Cayce Moore
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- AEDPA Successive Petitions Clause Not Applicable to Disiplinary Hearings
- Washington Felon Voting Suit Proceeds
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- South Carolina Prison Chief Fired as Scandal Widens, April 15, 2001
- Bag'm, Tag'm and Bury'm; Wisconsin Prisoners Dying for Health Care, Feb. 15, 2001
- Food Strike Puts Washington DOC on Spin Control, Feb. 15, 2001
- Fraud Charged by Washington DOC Whistleblower, Feb. 15, 2001
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- Death as a Salesman: Benneton Ad Campaign Comes to Death Row, Dec. 15, 2000
- Illinois Supermax Hunger Strike, Dec. 15, 2000
- Whistle-blowing Doctor Shakes Up Nebraska DOC, Nov. 15, 2000
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