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Clemency Letter Ban Questioned
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1997, page 16
The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that an Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) policy prohibiting employees from writing directly to the Prisoner Review Board (PRB) on behalf of prisoners seeking clemency may be unconstitutional. Larry Shimer filed a petition for clemency and asked several prison guards to …
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