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Race-Based California Prison Job Lockout May Violate Equal Protection
Loaded on April 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2005, page 34
by John E. DannenbergA divided panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that during a California prison partial lockdown limited to two ethnic populations, prison officials' exclusion from early return-to-work of pre-screened critical" prisoner workers solely because of their race, did not rise under the facts ...
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