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Book Request System Inadequate
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1991, page 8
Many jurisdictions try to meet their constitutional obligation to provide segregated prisoners with adequate access to the courts through some sort of law book request system. This means the locked-down prisoner must send a written request to the prison law library asking for specific volumes of legal reference material. This …
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