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Missouri Ends Ad Seg Ban on Publications
Loaded on July 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1999, page 8
On October 22, 1998, the Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) in Missouri ended its ban on publications sent to prisoners in administrative segregation (ad seg). PCC houses a control unit where prisoners are kept in ad seg for lengthy periods of time. The prison's previous policy had been to prohibit all …
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