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Court Denies Arizona DOC’s Motion to Terminate Monitoring of Prisoners’ Out-of-Cell Time
Loaded on Dec. 10, 2019
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2019, page 61
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement.
Location:
Arizona.
by Douglas Ankney
On September 16, 2019, federal judge Roslyn O. Silver signed an order that denied, in part, a motion filed by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADOC) to terminate monitoring of out-of-cell exercise time for prisoners housed in maximum-security units.
The ADOC moved to terminate …
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