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CDCR Pays $12,000 to Settle California Prisoner’s Pro Se Caging Suit
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2012, page 25
As part of a settlement agreement, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) agreed to pay $12,000 to prisoner Bobby James Williams to settle a lawsuit Williams filed in 2005. Williams claimed that the CDCR had violated his state and federal constitutional rights when he was placed in a …
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