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Virginia Prison Policy Prohibiting Secular, Non-Religious CDs Held Unconstitutional
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2012, page 31
On February 7, 2012, a U.S. District Court held that a Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) policy prohibiting prisoners from purchasing or possessing secular spoken-word compact discs was unconstitutional. The court invalidated the policy but also granted qualified immunity to the defendant prison officials.Owen North, a friend of Virginia ...
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