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Be a Rat or Else!
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1991, page 9
Be A Rat Or Else!This all started back in November 1986, a couple of weeks after the decision in Toussaint v. McCarthy 801 F.2d 1080 (9 Cir. 1986) [prisoners can be placed on administrative segregation status for little or no reason]. Myself and a couple hundred other people were …
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More from this issue:
- A Lesson From Japan, by Dan Pens
- The United States Supreme Court: Petition for Writ of Certiori, by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft
- Drug Profits Fund Prison
- Walla Walla 'Lifers With Hope'
- Mass. Corrections Policy "Disaster" Says Task Force
- Texas Prison Officials Indicted
- Mail Rejection Not Upheld
- Informants Must Be Reliable
- Prison Visitors May Not Be Searched Without Probable Cause
- Prisoners Entitled to Exculpatory Evidence In Disciplinary Hearings
- Legal Mail May Not be Read
- Prisoners Must Be Fed
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Magistrates May Hear Prison Cases
- Grievance System Does Not Create Liberty Interest
- Reviews
- Justice for Jimmy Haynes?, by John Perotti
- PLN Banned in France, by Paul Wright
- The Ex Post Facto Clause and Washington's Parole Board, by Ed Mead
- California Prison Construction, by Ruth Cashmere
- Be a Rat or Else!
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