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Idaho DOC Settles 30-year-old Class-action Lawsuit
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2013, page 40
Idaho officials first tried to suppress what they called an “inflammatory” and “libelous” report filed by a court-appointed expert in a longstanding suit involving the state’s prison system. They then finally agreed to settle the 30-year-old litigation based upon the report’s findings.In 1981, a flood of federal lawsuits was …
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