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WA County Launches Slave Labor Center
Loaded on May 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1998, page 6
Construction crews were hard at work in February, l998, pounding nails, framing walls and stirring Spackle to remodel a building adjacent to the Whatcom County (WA) Courthouse. Pictured on the front page of the Bellingham Herald , they looked like any typical hard-working bunch of all-American construction workers -- except ...
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