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Iowa Visiting Rules Create Liberty Interest
Loaded on May 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1992, page 8
Iowa prison officials doubled the population in a minimum-security facility from 65 to 120 prisoners. To house the additional prisoners the visiting room was converted into a dormitory and visiting was cut in half, from every weekend to every other weekend. William Patachette filed suit on the diminished visiting claiming ...
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