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Arizona Holiday Package Decree Modified
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1997, page 3
In the June, 1997, issue of PLN we reported the lengthy, tortured history of efforts by the Arizona DOC to eliminate holiday packages [On the Edge of Midnight]. The ruling cited in that article, Hook v. State of Arizona, 98 F.3d 1177 (9th Cir. 1997) has been withdrawn on the …
Filed under:
Food,
Civil Procedure,
Contempt (Civil Procedure),
Appeals,
Consent Decrees,
Special Masters,
Prisoner Property,
Mail Regulations.
Location:
Arizona.
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