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NY School-Age Prisoners Entitled to Educational Services
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2000, page 15
New York City school-age prisoners were granted declaratory judgment establishing defendants' liability for failure to provide adequate general and special educational services to class members at the Rikers Island facility.Plaintiffs in this class action § 1983 suit are 16- to 21-year-old prisoners in the custody of the New York ...
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