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Court Enjoins BOP Phone System
Loaded on March 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1994, page 1
On October 13, 1993, Judge Henry Wilhoit of the U.S. District Court in Kentucky entered a preliminary injunction barring the federal Bureau of Prisons from implementing its Inmate Telephone System (ITS). The case is Washington v. Reno, case number 93-217 and 93-290. Readers should note that so far this is …
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