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Toxic Traps: Environmental Hazards Threaten Two Federal Supermax Prisons
Loaded on Oct. 26, 2015
by Laura Cepero
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2015, page 24
Filed under:
Environmental Law,
National Environmental Policy Act.
Locations:
Illinois,
United States of America.
Toxic Traps: Environmental Hazards Threaten Two Federal Supermax Prisons
by Laura Cepero
A Solitary Watch investigation into the sites of the federal government’s two “supermax” facilities – the first open for two decades, the second slated to open soon – reveals a number of possible serious environmental hazards. The prisons, ADX ...
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