Jail and Workhouse &#039;Grossly Inadequate,&#039; Newspaper Article.

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Title: Jail and Workhouse 'Grossly Inadequate,' Newspaper Article.
Date: 1977-03-15
Creator: Ron Miskoff See all items with this value
Description: A newspaper article from The Home News about a 133 page report from American Foundation, Inc., Institute of Corrections that finds the conditions of Middlesex County Jail, specifically the basement where Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard) is being held while on trial for the 1973 killing of a state trooper, to be "grossly inadequate."
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Law See all items with this value; Justice See all items with this value; Black power See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Black Panther Party (BPP); Prison; Black nationalism
Type: Textual document
Medium: Paper
Format: PDF
HBCU Identifier: mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.IX.4.49.61
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.JSU.0853
Rights: All rights held by the Margaret Walker Center. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, 601-979-3935 Attn: Center Director.
Contributing Institution: Jackson State University
Source: Originally published in The Home News, 15 Mar. 1977.
Collection: The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson See all items with this value
Relation: Photocopy of newspaper photograph of the Middlesex County Jail from The Home News, Front Page Side Index; Photocopy of newspaper photograph of the Middlesex County Jail from The Home News; County Report Urges New Wing on Workhouse, Newspaper Article.
Language: English

Item sets: Ephemera & Objects; Women in the Movement Collection; Black Liberation Army (BLA) Collection; Jackson State University Collections

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