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El Salvador Prison System in Crisis
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1994, page 12
On August 4, 1994, 300 prisoners at the San Miguel prison in El Salvador took a judge and his secretary hostage to protest prison conditions. The hostages were freed a few hours later after judicial officials signed an agreement to study the prisoners' demands for prison reforms. The demands include ...
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