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California Prison Law Libraries Survive

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2002 published in Prison Legal News October, 2002, page 19
Filed under: Court Access, Law Library Access/Adequacy. Location: California.
The California Department of Corrections (CDC) stipulated to ending its motion under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) [18 USC §3262(b) et seq.] to terminate a 1976 consent decree which mandates prison law libraries in CDC prisons. In August 2002, the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals reversed the district ...

 

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