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Former Michigan Prisoner Claims Sewage Spill Linked to Hepatitis C
Loaded on June 30, 2017
by Panagioti Tsolkas
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2017, page 42
Filed under:
Prison Labor,
Work Conditions/Safety,
Hepatitis,
Sewage,
Sanitation.
Location:
Michigan.
by Panagioti Tsolkas
"That was just like opening a fire hydrant" is how former Michigan state prisoner Glen Lilly described the thousands of pounds of raw sewage that flooded the basement at the Parnall Correctional Facility as a result of a plumbing disaster that spanned several months.
“It shot onto ...
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