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Alaska Overcrowding Fines Increase
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1996, page 10
In the November 1995, issue of PLN we reported on prison overcrowding in Alaska. In 1981 Alaska prisoners filed a class action suit challenging overcrowding and conditions in the prison system. The prisoners won most of the suit, the key aspect was a court ordered maximum population of 2,665 prisoners. ...
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