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Passin' Gas
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1991
by Clark Stuhr
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1991, page 9
Here at the Washington State Penitentiary's Intensive Management Unit (IMU) there is no end to the mental and physical torture being inflicted upon the inmates. The latest of which are the new use of force tactics being used by IMU staff since the placing of mentally ill inmates in IMU. ...
Filed under:
Cell Searches,
Pepper Spray/Tear Gas,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Washington.
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- Caging America: The U.S. Imprisonment Binge, by Patricia Horn
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- Pig Park Update
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- Privacy Right Not To Be Viewed Naked by Opposite Sex Prison Guards
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