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Louisiana Jail Policy Banning Abortions Upheld

A policy requiring a prison inmate to obtain a court order and pay all attendant costs of a non-
therapeutic abortion did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. (The Sheriff said that this policy
applied to all "elective surgery.")

Under the Turner standard, the Sheriff has a valid penological purpose in ...

 

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