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AHCC Bulk Mail Ban in Miniken Settled
Loaded on March 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1999, page 17
In the February, 1998, issue of PLN we reported Miniken v. Walter, 978 F. Supp. 1356 (ED WA 1997). In that ruling the court held that the Airway Heights Corrections Center's (AHCC) in Washington, ban on third class mail was unconstitutional as applied to Prison Legal News . The court ...
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