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January 4, 2017

Imprisoned Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal Wins Hepatitis C Treatment
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In a major victory in Pennsylvania, imprisoned journalist and former
Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal has won an injunction forcing the
Pennsylvania prison system to provide him life-saving Hepatitis C
medicine. Lawyers with the Abolitionist Law Center say, "This is the
first case in the country in which a federal court has ordered prison
officials to provide an incarcerated patient with the new medications
that came on the market in 2013."


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