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MCC Settlement Upheld
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1996, page 15
The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that a district court properly approved a settlement agreement dismissing a prison conditions class action suit over the objections of numerous plaintiffs. In 1991 prisoners at the Maximum Control Complex (MCC) in Indiana filed suit challenging numerous aspects of the control …
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