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Contempt Finding Reversed
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1995, page 18
In 1980 prisoners at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) entered into a consent decree, Dee v. Brewer, with prison officials which prohibited guards from searching or removing prisoners legal papers from their cells when the prisoner was not present, unless exigent circumstances existed. In 1993 ISP officials received a tip ...
Filed under:
Cell Searches,
Court Access,
Legal Property,
Contempt (Civil Procedure),
Consent Decrees,
Legal Mail.
Location:
Iowa.
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