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Jail Population Cap Affirmed
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1995, page 9
Prisoners and detainees in the Angelina county jail in Texas filed a class action suit claiming that overcrowding at the jail violated their constitutional rights. The district court agreed and entered an injunction imposing a population cap on the jail. The defendant county jail and sheriff also filed a third …
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