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Consent Decree Modified to Permit Racial Segregation

Loaded on March 15, 1994 published in Prison Legal News March, 1994, page 10
Filed under: Classification, Racial Discrimination, Consent Decrees. Location: Ohio.
In 1988 a prisoner at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF)at Lucasville, OH, filed suit challenging the prison's practice of assigning prisoners to cells based on their race. This practice led to the racial segregation of prisoners. The court appointed counsel in the case, a class was certified and eventually ...

 

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