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Summer of Discontent
Loaded on May 15, 2008
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2008, page 16
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Gang Policies,
Prison Rebellion,
Hunger Strikes,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Failure to Protect (General),
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
United States of America.
by John E. Dannenberg
Underlying the purported societal goal of prisoner rehabilitation lurks the reality of what impedes it: systemic violence that defines the adversarial relationship between all men and women behind bars, prisoners and guards alike.
Driven by racial animus, drugs, anger, gang rivalry, perceived disrespect and lack of ...
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
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