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America Behind Bars, video series from Deep Dish TV
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2000
by Janet Stanton
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2000, page 14
AMERICA BEHIND BARS, video series from Deep Dish TV
Filed under:
Political Prisoners,
Reviews,
Organizing,
Crime,
Education,
Death Row,
Censorship.
Location:
United States of America.
Review By Janet Stanton
No society since Nazi Germany has built so many prisons in such a short time. Each of those prisons is a school or a hospital that will never be built.
--Mike Davis
This quote, from the cover …
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