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You're in the Hole: A Crackdown on Dissident Prisoners
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2002
by Anne-Marie Cusac
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2002, page 1
It was September 19, 2001. Elizabeth McAlister had not heard from her husband, Philip Berrigan, in more than a week. Such silence on Berrigan's part was "most unusual," she says. Convinced that something was wrong, she telephoned the Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, Ohio, where the seventy-seven-year-old peace activist is ...
Filed under:
Political Prisoners,
Attorney Client,
Telephones,
Telephone Access,
Attorney Calls,
Mail Regulations,
Attorney Visits.
Location:
United States of America.
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- Oregon Court of Appeals Vacates IFP Decisions
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