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Phoenix, Arizona Sheriff’s Policy Delaying Prisoners’ Elective Abortions Enjoined

Loaded on June 15, 2007 by John Dannenberg published in Prison Legal News June, 2007, page 22
Filed under: Private Prisons, CMS, Abortion, Injunctions. Location: Arizona.
Phoenix, Arizona Sheriff's Policy Delaying Prisoners' Elective Abortions Enjoined

by John E. Dannenberg

Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's policy that required a female prisoner seeking an elective abortion to first obtain a court order for this procedure was enjoined because it represented an exaggerated response to Arpaio's alleged penological ...

 

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