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Unrest in NY Prisons
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1996
by EO E
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1996, page 6
[Editor's Note: New York state's Republican majority legislature passed laws that mandate double bunking of the NYDOC prison system. Most cells in NY state prisons are tiny, a mere 9' x 6'. There is a high incidence of both AIDS and the deadly "drug resistant strain of TB" in NY ...
Filed under:
Prison Rebellion,
Work Strikes,
Overcrowding,
Visiting,
Extended Family Visiting.
Location:
New York.
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