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ADA Applied to AR Jail
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1998, page 13
In the first ruling out of the eighth circuit on this issue, a federal district court in Arkansas held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12132 and the Rehabilitation Act (RA), 29 U.S.C. § 794, apply to state correctional facilities. John Herndon was a pretrial detainee ...
Filed under:
Disabled Prisoners,
Skeletal Injury,
Conditions of Confinement,
Jail Specific,
Americans with Disabilities Act,
Rehabilitation Act.
Location:
Arkansas.
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