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The Fire Inside
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1994
by Ray Luc Levasseur
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1994, page 13
October, 1994, marked the eleventh year of collective punishment at the United States penitentiary, Marion. It marked a decade of lockdown, control unit regimes and government lies. No doubt the federal Bureau of Prisons will commemorate the event by rolling out its propaganda wagon, and indulging the public with some ...
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United States of America.
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- Sewing Our Own Destruction, Nov. 15, 1997
- Trouble Coming Every Day; ADX-The First Year, July 15, 1997
- Armed and Dangerous, May 15, 1995
- The Fire Inside, Oct. 15, 1994
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