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Money Damages Available for Consent Decree Violations
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1993, page 9
Two prisoners at the Georgia State Prison (GSP) filed suit under § 1983 concerning the confiscation of personal property and the procedures at prison disciplinary hearings. In the mid-70's these issues had been litigated as part of a class action suit by other prisoners. The plaintiff class of prisoners and ...
Filed under:
Civil Procedure,
Damages,
Injunctions,
Contempt (Civil Procedure),
Consent Decrees,
Prisoner Property.
Location:
Georgia.
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