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Supermax Identity Holds Boscobel Prison Hostage

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A federal judge says it’s time to end the court’s role in monitoring the treatment of prisoners at the fomer supermax prison in Boscobel. But an attorney for the inmates says there are serious problems with the state’s plan to start using part of the prison to house general population prisoners. Gil Halsted reports…

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