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Alaska Prisoners' Benefits Extended to Arizona
Loaded on June 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2003, page 26
The Supreme Court of Alaska sustained a lower court's ruling which provisionally allowed Alaska prisoners to be transferred to an Arizona prison, required the Arizona facility to comply with Alaska's prison overcrowding settlement agreement, and found the Alaska prisoners' challenge to the process of selecting individuals for transfer to Arizona ...
Filed under:
Out of State Transfers,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Overcrowding,
Civil Procedure,
Settlements,
Mootness.
Locations:
Alaska,
Arizona.
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