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Activist Says He Wants Justice, Not Money, For Unwarranted Assault While a Prison Inmate by Seven Guards - Milwaukee Community Journal

By Thomas E. Mitchell, Jr. (Editor’s Note: This article contains a paragraph of a sensitive, explicit nature in describing what happened to article’s main subject and is only mentioned to give the article context.) David Ali Shabazz, a former inmate at Waupun Correctional Institution with several disabilities, who claims he was a victim […]

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