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Nevada DOC Moves to End Discrimination against HIV-positive and Disabled Prisoners
Loaded on July 28, 2017
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2017, page 40
Filed under:
Classification,
Discrimination,
Disabled Prisoners,
Prison Labor,
HIV/AIDS.
Location:
Nevada.
by Matt Clarke
On June 20, 2016, Rebecca Bond, chief of the Disability Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), sent the Nevada Attorney General a letter calling out the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) for unlawfully discriminating against prisoners with HIV, mobility devices and other disabilities – ...
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