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Organizations Not "Persons" for IFP Status
Loaded on May 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1993, page 5
The Men's Advisory Council is a group of elected representatives of prisoners at a prison in California. When the prison discontinued the practice of providing free tobacco to indigent inmates the Council filed a civil rights complaint in federal court. They sought leave to proceed in forma pauperis under 28 …
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