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By Staughton Lynd,Mumia Abu-Jamal

On Easter Sunday in 1993, prisoners seized an incredible sector of the felony on the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. greater than four hundred prisoners, together with an not going alliance among frequently opposing gangs - the 'Aryan Brotherhood' and the 'Gangsta Disciples' - held L block for eleven days, within which 9 prisoners imagined to were informants and one hostaged correctional officer have been murdered. Lucasville provides an in-depth account of the factors of the disturbance, what occurred through the eleven days and the equity of the pains that followed.

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