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Prisoner Litigant and Prison Law Library Secondary Resource List
Loaded on June 15, 1992
by Robert Pierce
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1992, page 7
By Robert Pierce
Filed under:
Resources,
Court Access,
Law Library Access/Adequacy.
Location:
United States of America.
In the field of law, books that deal with an overall view of a topic, those that are used in teaching law, or that are encyclopedic in nature, are known as secondary resource materials. These secondary resources are essential to the jailhouse lawyer when developing strategies on …
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