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Ninth Circuit Terminates Idaho Prison Conditions Lawsuit After 40 Years of Litigation
Loaded on Sept. 30, 2022
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2022, page 54
Filed under:
Medical,
Conditions of Confinement,
Overcrowding,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Dismissal,
Class Actions.
Location:
Idaho.
by David M. Reutter
On March 22, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed termination of all prospective relief in a long-running class action alleging unconstitutional conditions at the Idaho State Correctional Institution (ISCI).
The Court’s opinion ended a 1981 lawsuit filed by prisoner Walter Balla, ...
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