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American “Corrections”
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2011
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2011, page 44
At SCI Pittsburgh in Woods Run, Pennsylvania, prisoners and guards alike made the phenomenon of imprisonment more hellish than usual.
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
Pennsylvania.
That’s because, according to at least one broadcast report, men at the medium- to minimum-security lock-up, particularly those convicted of sexual assaults against children, were raped by other prisoners – ...
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