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Pennsylvania Consent Decree Clarified
Loaded on July 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1998, page 20
Afederal district court in Pennsylvania held that a consent decree was applicable only to prisoners confined to six prisons named therein. The court further held that violations of the decree could be considered by the court in contempt proceedings. However, the court would only entertain institution- or system-wide violations, which ...
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Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions,
Contempt (Civil Procedure),
Administrative Exhaustion,
Class Certification,
Consent Decrees.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
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