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Florida Prisoners Have Property Interest Under DOC Rules

Loaded on April 15, 1998 published in Prison Legal News April, 1998, page 21
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Mandamus, Prisoner Property. Location: Florida.
A Florida appellate court held that Title 33 of the Florida Administrative Code, the rules of the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC), affords Florida state prisoners a vested right to possess property insofar as the property was authorized and the prisoner has storage space available to contain it. A circuit ...

 

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