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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 …
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- Trends in Prisoner Litigation, as the PLRA Enters Adulthood, Sept. 28, 2015
- Preserving the Rule of Law in America’s Jails and Prisons: The Case for Amending the Prison Litigation Reform Act, July 15, 2009
- Operationalizing Deterrence: Claims Management (In Hospitals, a Large Retailer, and Jails and Prisons), April 15, 2009
- BEYOND THE HERO JUDGE: INSTITUTIONAL REFORM LITIGATION AS LITIGATION, April 15, 2009
- National Prison Reform Commission Begins Work, April 15, 2009
- Jail Strip-Search Cases: Patterns and Participants, April 15, 2009
- The Political Economy of Prison and Jail Litigation, June 15, 2007
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