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Massachusetts Prisoners Involved in Reform Efforts Transferred, Held in Solitary
Loaded on Sept. 2, 2016
by Christopher Zoukis
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2016, page 32
Three Massachusetts state prisoners have been placed in segregation in apparent retaliation for their prison reform activism.
Timothy Muise, Shawn Fisher and Steven James, all incarcerated at the medium-security prison MCI Shirley, were taken from their cells late at night on March 23, 2016 and transferred to three different Massachusetts ...
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