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Allan Parmelee, the Inmate Who Won't Shut Upnew

Parmelee spends his days in a cell, carefully hand-printing lawsuits, motions, records requests, and legal appeals on a pad of lined paper. Known to fellow inmates as the "jailhouse attorney," he's filed dozens of lawsuits in state and federal courts.
Seattle Weekly  |  Laura Onstot  |  07-07-2008  |  Crime & Justice

The Price You Paynew

The Colorado Department of Corrections just changed the way people can send money to prisoners, hiking the cost up -- way up.
Westword  |  Luke Turf  |  11-08-2005  |  Crime & Justice

Prison Escapee Tells Story of Mass Jailbreaknew

After Andrew Heim and five other convicts emerged from the tunnel that brought them out of Western Penitentiary in 1997, the adrenaline didn't wear off until they were halfway across Ohio.
Pittsburgh City Paper  |  Marty Levine  |  07-20-2005  |  Crime & Justice

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