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Activist charged in try to smuggle

Needles, knife found, state says

By Mike Linn

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 6:22 a.m.

Authorities accused Betsey Wright, at one time a chief of staff to former-Gov. Bill Clinton and now a prisoner-rights advocate, of trying to smuggle contraband into Arkansas' death row - including 48 tattoo needles hidden inside a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos.

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