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Narrowing the Remedial Gap: Damages for Disability Discrimination in Outsourced Federal Programs
Loaded on May 1, 2021
by Margo Schlanger
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2021, page 56
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Pension/Social Security/Disability Benefits.
Location:
United States of America.
by Margo Schlanger, University of Chicago Law Review Online, March 5, 2021
I. Introduction
Kamyar Samimi, a sixty-four-year-old legal permanent resident from Iran, died in U.S. immigration detention in December 2017. After more than four decades in the United States, he’d been confined at the Aurora Contract Detention Facility, a ...
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- Jail Strip-Search Cases: Patterns and Participants, April 15, 2009
- BEYOND THE HERO JUDGE: INSTITUTIONAL REFORM LITIGATION AS LITIGATION, April 15, 2009
- National Prison Reform Commission Begins Work, April 15, 2009
- Operationalizing Deterrence: Claims Management (In Hospitals, a Large Retailer, and Jails and Prisons), April 15, 2009
- The Political Economy of Prison and Jail Litigation, June 15, 2007
- National Prison Reform Commission Started, Aug. 15, 2005
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