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Legal Services Funding Cut
Loaded on July 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1996, page 19
In 1974 Richard Nixon created the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). The purpose of the LSC was to make grants to agencies and groups around the country which provided legal services to the poor: welfare recipients, prisoners, public housing tenants, aliens, farm workers, etc. In recent years Republicans have worked hard ...
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