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From a California Reader
Governor Pete Wilson is constantly passing legislation that is cutting away at the Prisoner Bill of Rights, and has done away with conjugal visits for prisoners with certain sex convictions, and has recently signed a Bill that limits good time/work time credits to 15% (down from 33.3% -50%) for prisoners ...
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- Unconstitutionality of Florida's Outdoor Yard Policies for Close Management Prisoners, by Van Poyck, William
- Pretrial Detainee Housed at Marion
- Racist Guard Fired
- Ban on Japanese Publications Struck Down
- Frivolous Litigation
- Kansas Ad-Seg Plan Clarified
- Federal Courts Must Rule on State Law Claims in Beating
- Discriminatory Jury Selection Reversed
- No FLSA Protection for Prisoner Workers
- Legal Papers Filed When Mailed
- CA BPT Lawyer Sentenced
- MS Bans Appliances
- TX Guards Charged in Beating Murder
- Limits on Contact Visits With Counsel Reversed
- Jail Population Cap Affirmed
- Prisoner Shot Dead
- Warden Killed in Alabama
- Law Library Access Not "Core" Bounds Requirement
- WSR Guard Convicted of Soliciting Assault
- WI Enacts Sex Predator Law
- Tennis Shoes Cost US Taxpayers Over $8,000
- OK Early Release Law Legal
- Lucasville 1994 "Spilt Milk", by John Perotti
- Award for Prisoners Beaten by OH Guards
- Did Warden Seek SOCF Riot?
- News in Brief
- Algerian Prison Uprising
- From The Editor, by Dan Pens
- Resource Info Wanted, by Reader Mail
- From a Michigan Reader, by Reader Mail
- CT's "Gang Problem", by William Dwyer
- Japan Uses Prison Slave Labor
- U.S. Prisoner in Thailand Needs Info
- From a California Reader, by Reader Mail
- Activists Labeled "Security Threat", by Reader Mail
- AIDS Info Sought, by Jeannie Pejko
- Conditions in Thai Prisons for US Prisoners, by Reader Mail
- Televisions in Prison, by Reader Mail
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- Gangs in OH, June 15, 1995
- From a Michigan Reader, Jan. 15, 1995
- Resource Info Wanted, Jan. 15, 1995
- Activists Labeled "Security Threat", Jan. 15, 1995
- From a California Reader, Jan. 15, 1995
- Televisions in Prison, Jan. 15, 1995
- Conditions in Thai Prisons for US Prisoners, Jan. 15, 1995
- OH Double Standard, July 15, 1994
- AZ Prison Blues, June 15, 1994
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