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Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual, 4th Edition, by John Boston and Daniel Manville, Oxford University Press, 960 Pages, $39.95

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New Picture on Violence in Federal Prisons

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Officers denied immunity for strip-searching protesters

Posted: October 19, 2010
10:33 pm Eastern

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The 2008 arrest of Angela Swagler, then 18

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