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From the Editor
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2013
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2013, page 8
I would like to thank everyone who has donated to the Human Rights Defense Center/Prison Legal News annual fundraiser. As of mid-January 2013 we had raised a little over $29,000 of our $60,000 goal to continue the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice, and still need more support to be able ...
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Editorials,
Telephones,
Telephone Rates,
Mail Regulations,
PLN Litigation.
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United States of America.
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