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California Prison Policy Restricting Book Orders Enjoined
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2003, page 6
The US District Court (ND Calif.) issued a permanent injunction against officials at the maximum security Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) that terminated their policy requiring vendors who shipped books, periodicals, magazines or calendars to PBSP prisoners to use a prison-supplied shipping label on the package - because that policy …
Filed under:
Injunctions (PLRA),
Publications/Books,
Mail Regulations,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
California.
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