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Confronting the Helms Amendment
Loaded on March 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1995, page 16
In the December, 1994, issue of PLN we reported on and analyzed the federal crime bill and discussed one of its components, section 20409, which seeks to limit prisoners ability to challenge prison overcrowding via class action suits. Elizabeth Alexander, Associate Director for Litigation of the National Prison Project, has ...
Filed under:
Overcrowding,
Civil Procedure,
Injunctions,
Federal Legislation.
Location:
United States of America.
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