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Wisconsin Joins the Control-Unit Fraternity
Loaded on July 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1998, page 17
Wisconsin Joins The Control-Unit Fraternity On the morning of December 17, 1997, as thirty protesters gathered in a parking lot in Boscobel, a small farm town isolated in the rural southwest corner of Wisconsin, police squad cars wheeled into the lot. Sheriff's deputies informed the demonstrators that signs and banners ...
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