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Ex-Louisiana Officials Fined for Racial Segregation

Loaded on March 15, 1993 published in Prison Legal News March, 1993, page 8
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Civil Procedure, Damages. Location: Louisiana.
Two former Louisiana corrections officials must pay $4,000 in fines for segregating inmates by race, a federal judge said. In his ruling October 27th in Baton rouge, a U.S. District judge lowered the judgment from $10,000 recommended by a federal magistrate earlier in the year.

Fined were former Department of ...

 

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