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Prison Law Libraries Must Keep All Books Current

Loaded on Dec. 15, 1991 published in Prison Legal News December, 1991, page 4
Filed under: Court Access, Law Library Access/Adequacy. Location: Washington.
One of the questions presented in this case was whether a prison law library must keep current (update) those books that they are not constitutionally required to have. The case arose when prisoners initiated litigation, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983, over the adequacy of the law library at the Washington ...

 

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