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Former 'Guinea Pigs' Protest
Loaded on March 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1999, page 3
Fifty former Pennsylvania state prisoners protested outside the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on a cold December morning in 1998 to draw attention to the pain and suffering they say resulted from medical experiments performed on them in Holmesburg prison "We are the experimentation survivors," Leodus Jones shouted through ...
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- Former 'Guinea Pigs' Protest
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- Book Review: Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison, by Daniel Burton-Rose
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- PLN Sues Utah Jail Over Publication Ban; Suit Settled
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- Florida Nicotine Addiction Suit Settled
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Draws the Line on Jailhouse Snitches
- Arkansas Sheriff Bent on "Saving" Prisoners
- "Tough" Florida Sheriff Arrested
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- AHCC Bulk Mail Ban in Miniken Settled
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- South Carolina Grooming Rules Upheld
- Judicial Sentence of Life in Solitary Upheld
- Warden May Be Liable for Rape
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