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The Long Silence: Federal Prisoners' Fight to Get the Word Out Reaches Unprintable Extremes
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2003
by Alan Prendergast
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2003, page 8
As an aspiring 26-year-old writer with a dark past, Mark Jordan figures he has plenty to tell the world. He has stories about bank robberies, for instance, and the many episodes of violence he's seen in eight years of prison life. And how federal authorities have been trying to coerce ...
Filed under:
Retaliation for Media Contact,
Publications/Books,
Media,
Prisoner Media,
Censorship.
Location:
Colorado.
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