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Alabama Ad Seg Publication Ban Struck Down
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2001, page 9
On March 20, 2000, a Federal Magistrate recommended declaratory relief striking down a ban on subscription publications in the Alabama Department of Corrections' (DOC) Administrative Segregation (Ad Seg) unit.
Filed under:
Injunctions,
Publications/Books,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Michigan.
This recommendation follows a previous ruling where the Court held, after a bench trial, that the Ad Seg ban on the …
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