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Federal Prisons Erupt
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1996
by Dan Pens
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1996, page 5
At least five federal prisons erupted in violence within days after a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to overrule a recommendation by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to end the 100 to 1 sentencing disparity between crack and powdered cocaine offenses. Information on the uprisings was sketchy. There were ...
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Racial Discrimination,
Prison Rebellion,
Crime/Demographics,
Crime,
Federal Legislation.
Location:
United States of America.
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