Jail and Workhouse &#039;Grossly Inadequete&#039;

Jail and Workhouse 'Grossly Inadequete'

Title: Jail and Workhouse 'Grossly Inadequete'
Date: 1977-03-15
Creator: Ron Miskoff
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; Law; Justice; Black power
Additional Subject: Black Panther Party (BPP); Prison; Black nationalism
Type: Textual document
Medium: Paper
Format: JPEG
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
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.

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Photocopy of newspaper photograph of the Middlesex County Jail from The Home News	Image
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