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Columbus, Ohio Jail’s Seclusion Turns Parole Into Death March
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2007, page 34
Columbus, Ohio Jail's Seclusion Turns Parole Into Death MarchColumbus, Ohio's main incarceration facility has a fatal flaw. It is located so remote from public transportation--requiring walking miles along a dangerous freeway -- that prisoners happily paroled, but unable to call for friends to pick them up, sometimes die walking …
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