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Law Library Access Not "Core" Bounds Requirement
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1995, page 10
In a major setback for Washington state prisoners the ninth circuit has held that prisoners do not have a right of access to prison law libraries. William Vandelft was infracted while at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton. He served a sanction of segregation and filed a state Personal Restraint …
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