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Indiana Prisoner Dies after Cell Extraction
Loaded on July 6, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2016, page 47
In 2012, Pendleton Correctional Facility prisoner Justin Addler was one of 40 people charged in connection with a cell phone smuggling ring at three Indiana prisons. The phones were used to arrange sales of methamphetamine, heroin and LSD outside the facilities. [See: PLN, Dec 2012, p.50].
Addler, 32, …
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