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PLN Sues to Uncover Telemarketing Closure
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2000, page 12
The accompanying story on the closure of the Washington Marketing Group (WMG) operation at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, Washington, occured in May, 1999. Shortly after it occurred PLN editor Paul Wright filed a Public Disclosure Act (PDA) request with the Department of Correction's Correctional Industries (CI) seeking disclosure ...
Filed under:
Prison Industries,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Damages,
Disclosure of Records,
Media,
PLN Litigation.
Location:
Washington.
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