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Improved Jail Conditions Merits Attorney Fees
Loaded on May 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1993, page 3
Two Wood County, Texas, jail prisoners filed suit under § 1983 claiming the jail had practices of denying prisoners access to the courts, improper classification, punitive isolation without due process, inadequate medical care, denial of reading material and overall unacceptable jail conditions. The district court certified a class of present …
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Staffing,
Sewage,
Reading Materials,
Lighting,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Mootness,
Mail Regulations,
Ad-Seg Hearings.
Location:
Texas.
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