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Prison Ecology
Loaded on Nov. 30, 2015
by Dashka Slater
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2015, page 39
Filed under:
Environmental Law.
Location:
United States of America.
Prison Ecology
by Dashka Slater
On a February evening in 2005, a couple hundred people showed up at a public hearing at Oak Grove High School in north-central Alabama to complain about sewage in the tributaries of the Black Warrior River, a popular site for swimming, boating and fishing. The ...
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