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Kansas Ad-Seg Plan Clarified
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1995, page 5
In 1980 prisoners and prison officials in the Kansas state prison system entered into a consent decree designed to improve the living conditions of prisoners confined to administrative segregation (ad seg). In 1988 the case was reactivated when the prisoners sought the court's intervention claiming the defendants had not complied …
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