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ADA Applies to State Prisons
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1997, page 3
A federal district court in California held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12131-34 and the Rehabilitation Act (RA), 29 U.S.C. § 794, apply to state prisons and the California Department of Corrections (CDC) must comply with their respective provisions. CDC prisoners and parolees with mobility, …
Filed under:
Deaf Prisoners,
Disabled Prisoners,
Blind Prisoners,
Work,
Inability to Work,
Skeletal Injury,
Good Time,
Parole,
Americans with Disabilities Act,
Rehabilitation Act,
Eleventh Amendment Immunity.
Location:
California.
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