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Prisoner PAC Announces Formation
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1997, page 2
We are proud to announce the creation of the Massachusetts Prisoners Association, a newly registered Political Action Committee working on behalf of the more than 20,000 prisoners currently confined within the Massachusetts Prisons and Houses of Correction and their family members, addressing the concerns of prisoners in the political arena. ...
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