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Work Stoppage at Idaho CCA Prison
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2001, page 21
Five weeks after it opened, the Idaho Correctional Center (ICC), went on lockdown following a non-violent protest by prisoners there. Corrections Corporation of America operates the $50 million 1,250-bed prison.
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Organizing,
Work Strikes,
Grooming Rules,
Telephone Rates.
Location:
Idaho.
In early July 2000, CCA began moving Idaho prisoners from its New Mexico facilities. According to prison officials, the prisoners ...
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