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BOP Set to Stun Prisoners
Loaded on May 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1995, page 16
A Bureau of Prisons (BOP) reader sent us a photocopied BOP Policy Statement (P.S. 5558.10) dated September 30, 1994. The policy statement authorizes the BOP to force "maximum custody inmates" to wear what it describes as a "Remote Electronically ACtivated Technology (REACT) Stun Belt" as a custody control tool to ...
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