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Consent Decree Termination
Loaded on July 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1997, page 10
A federal district court in Indiana heard a motion by Lake County officials to dissolve a consent decree governing jail conditions. The motion sought immediate termination of the decree pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b)(2) and (3). The court gave an extensive discussion to the history of the PLRA and ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions,
Consent Decrees (PLRA).
Location:
Indiana.
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