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Former Prisoner, Jailhouse Lawyer Mujahid Farid Has Died
Loaded on Dec. 5, 2018
by Laura Whitehorn
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2018, page 39
Filed under:
Geriatric Classification,
Eulogies,
Prison Reform,
Criminal justice system reform.
Location:
New York.
by Laura Whitehorn
This issue of Prison Legal News is dedicated to Mujahid Farid.
Farid, 69, who died of cancer on November 20, 2018 in the Bronx, New York, often said he was only one of many people who spend their years in prison learning. Farid obtained his GED while ...
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- Former Prisoner, Jailhouse Lawyer Mujahid Farid Has Died, Dec. 5, 2018
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- Book Review: Breaking the Walls of Silence, Feb. 15, 1999
- Notes from the Unrepenitentiary, Feb. 15, 1999
- Notes from the Unrepenitentiary, Nov. 15, 1998
- Notes from the Unrepenitentiary, Aug. 15, 1998
- Notes from the Unrepenitentiary, May 15, 1998
- Notes from the Unrepenitentiary, Nov. 15, 1997
- Prisoner Literacy Obscure & Outdated, Nov. 15, 1997
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