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Eleventh Circuit: No Right to Spanish-language RDAP Program
Loaded on March 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2013, page 45
In an April 2, 2012 unpublished per curiam ruling, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a federal prisoner’s lawsuit seeking reinstatement of a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Spanish-language substance abuse program.
Filed under:
Prisoner Privileges,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Drug Treatment/Rehab.
Location:
Florida.
The suit claimed that the BOP had eliminated its Spanish-language Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), ...
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