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Modification of Consent Decree Denied

Loaded on June 15, 1994 published in Prison Legal News June, 1994, page 6
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Consent Decrees. Location: Massachusetts.
In 1971 jail detainees of the Suffolk County Jail in Massachusetts filed suit concerning unconstitutional conditions at the jail. In 1979 the prisoners and sheriff entered into a consent decree which forbade the double-celling of jail prisoners. In 1989 a new jail was built and the sheriff sought to modify …

 

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