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Race Becoming Dangerous Issue In OR Prisons
By salem-news.com
Published: 10/28/2010

(ONTARIO, Ore.) - We have reported at length on the plight of black inmates in the Oregon state prison system; people whose lives have been in jeopardy for helping expose racism in the Oregon State Prison (OSP) and the Snake River Correctional Institute (OSCI).

Terrence Kimble is serving a sentence for a crime he could not possibly have committed, but that is a separate issue. In April 2010, he testified in court for former Corrections Officer William Coleman, who filed a Whistleblower claim over racism taking place in the prison.

Since going to bat for Coleman, Kimble has been transferred from the Oregon State Prison in Salem, to the Snake River institution hundreds of miles into eastern Oregon, near the Idaho border, and little else.

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