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Michigan Prisoners Awarded Nearly $7,000 for Retaliatory Transfers
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2002
by Lonnie Burton
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2002, page 8
In February 2001, a federal judge ruled that two Michigan prisoners are entitled to almost $7,000 in damages after they were unjustly punished by the state Department of Corrections when they were transferred to highersecurity prisons. The transfers came after the prisoners exercised their First Amendment right to free speech ...
Filed under:
Classification,
Transfers,
Retaliation for Media Contact,
Retaliatory Transfers.
Location:
Michigan.
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