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PLN Sues Bureau of Prisons Over ADX Censorship
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2004, page 15
On December 10, 2003, PLN sued Harry Lappin, director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), former director Kathleen Hawk Sawyer; Robert Hood and Michael Pugh, the current and former wardens, respectively, of the Administrative Maximum (ADX) facility in Florence, Colorado. The lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Denver, ...
Filed under:
Publications/Books,
Mail Regulations,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement,
PLN Litigation.
Location:
Colorado.
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