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Youngstown prison

Four prisoners have at the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown have gone on a hunger strike to protest their solitary confinement. Their only demand: that they be moved to the state’s Death Row. The prisoners—Bomani Shakur, Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Jason Robb and Namir Abdul Mateen—were sentenced to death for their involvement in the 1993 prison uprising in Lucasville, […]

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Ohio Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike for Transfer from Solitary to Death Row

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by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella

January 5, 2011

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