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West Virginia Prisoners Protest Visit/Phone Restrictions
Loaded on June 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2000, page 19
Prisoners at the Mount Olive Correctional Center in West Virginia staged a walkout on Monday morning August 30, 1999 to protest a new visitation policy and problems with the phone system.
Filed under:
Prison Industries,
Prison Rebellion,
Work Strikes,
Prisoner Privileges,
Telephones,
Telephone Access,
Telephone Rates.
Location:
West Virginia.
More than 200 prisoners gathered in the prison's recreation yard and sat down. Most of them had walked away ...
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