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Greedo Still Influencing From Texas Prison
Loaded on March 1, 2021
by Jayson Hawkins
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2021, page 38
Filed under:
Tapes/Music.
Location:
Texas.
by Jayson Hawkins
His Texas ID card identifies him as Jason Jackson, Offender #2208297. The black ink etched in his skin and white clothing he must wear mark him as little different from 140,000 others in the state’s prison system, yet the phrase “Living Legend” tattooed across his face is ...
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
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- Second Circuit Upholds New York Prison Guards’ Federal Criminal Convictions for Assaulting Prisoner, by Matthew Clarke
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