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Permanent Injunction Issued in Madrid
Loaded on April 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1996, page 17
A PLN reader in Pelican Bay sent us a copy of a 26-page "Remedial Order RE: Exclusion From the Security Housing Unit" issued by U.S. district court judge Thelton Henderson on December 15, 1995. The reader who sent us the copy characterized it as "basically just more penological rhetoric, since …
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