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South Dakota Prison Conditions Class Action Settled

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2001 published in Prison Legal News November, 2001, page 12
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Consent Decrees (PLRA), Settlements. Location: South Dakota.
The federal district court in South Dakota has dissolved a state prison conditions consent decree and approved a class action settlement, ending two decades of litigation.

State prisoners filed a §1983 suit challenging prison conditions, certified as a class action in 1982. The court found the conditions at the South ...

 

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