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No Help for Disciplinary Hearings
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1994, page 8
Ronald Kulow is an Iowa state prisoner. Kulow suffers from brain damage, has an IQ between 70 and 74 and borderline intellectual functioning. After having an altercation with another prisoner he was placed in involuntary protective custody where he received numerous disciplinary infractions. At the disciplinary hearings he requested assistance …
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