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From the Editor
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2012
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2012, page 18
Over the past 22 years Prison Legal News has been represented by dozens of lawyers around the country in a variety of cases, mostly dealing with censorship and public records requests. We have met many if not most of our attorneys because they subscribed to PLN, based on their interest ...
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Eulogies,
Editorials,
Telephone Rates,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
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- Report Cites Rising Violence, Other Problems at Illinois Maximum-Security Prison, by David Reutter
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