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Judgment in Florida’s Closed Management Conditions Lawsuit Terminated Under the PLRA
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2008
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2008, page 26
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Exercise,
Consent Decrees (PLRA),
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Florida.
Judgment in Florida’s Closed Management Conditions Lawsuit Terminated Under the PLRA
by David M. Reutter
Nearly seven years after it was entered, a Florida federal district court has terminated a revised offer of judgment that was “intended to minimize the potentially harmful effects of” closed management (CM) which is Florida’s ...
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