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Wall City News

American newspaper
Also known as: “San Quentin News”
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    San Quentin State Prison
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    …the inmates also began publishing Wall City News, called “the only newspaper in the world published within the walls of a prison.” Although it ceased publication in the mid-1930s, the paper was revived (as San Quentin News) under Clinton Duffy, warden from 1940 to 1951; the newspaper was suspended periodically…

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    …the inmates also began publishing Wall City News, called “the only newspaper in the world published within the walls of a prison.” Although it ceased publication in the mid-1930s, the paper was revived (as San Quentin News) under Clinton Duffy, warden from 1940 to 1951; the newspaper was suspended periodically…

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