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New BOP Program Isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern Prisoners
Loaded on May 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2007, page 14
by Jennifer Van Bergen
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Administrative Procedures Act (Federal),
Telephones,
Telephone Monitoring.
Location:
Indiana.
The US Department of Justice has implemented a secretive new prison program segregating ?high-security-risk? Muslim and Middle Eastern prisoners and tightly restricting their communications with the outside world in apparent violation of federal law, according to documents obtained by Raw Story and PLN.
Quietly implemented in ...
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