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Cook County Sheriff’s Office Pays $110,000 to Settle PLN Censorship Suit
Loaded on Aug. 6, 2019
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2019, page 10
On June 25, 2019, Cook County, Illinois finalized a settlement in a lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News, a project of the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), over the censorship of publications mailed to prisoners at the county jail.
In 2016, PLN filed suit in U.S. District …
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