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Michigan's Female Prisoners Have Educational Parity
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1999, page 15
A federal district court in Michigan held that the educational, vocational, and apprenticeship opportunities provided to male and female prisoners in the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) are now sufficiently comparable for equal protection purposes to require termination of the court's 20 year supervision over the case.In 1977, female …
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